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Guy Hutchinson tells the bizarre story of the fake painting that fooled the Norman Rockwell Museum! Don Trachte amazing copy.

FROM FOX BUSSINESS:
A phony Norman Rockwell painting that was at the center of an art mystery is now on its own museum tour.


The fake – a copy of Rockwell’s “Breaking Home Ties” – had hung for years in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

The bizarre story is documented in the latest episode of the FOX Business Network series “Strange Inheritance” with Jamie Colby. It airs Monday, April 2 at 9 p.m. ET.

The main character in the puzzling tale is Donald Trachte, a cartoonist who for decades drew a comic strip titled “Henry.” Trachte was a neighbor, friend and sometimes model for Rockwell.

Trachte purchased “Breaking Home Ties” – a Rockwell oil on canvas that poignantly depicted a rancher sending his boy off to college – from a Vermont art gallery in 1962. Painted in 1954, it became one of Rockwell’s most popular Saturday Evening Post covers.

Trachte paid $900 for the work. Two years later, he turned down a $35,000 offer for it. Rockwell told him he was crazy.