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Commissioners approve loan-and-option plan to secure Hal Marcus painting removed from Chamizal
5489341 · July 28, 2025
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Court authorized staff to secure a loan of Hal Marcus's large painting removed from the Chamizal, with authority to negotiate an option to purchase later; artist and staff discussed storage and public display possibilities.
El Paso County commissioners on July 28 authorized staff to proceed to secure a loan of a large painting by El Paso artist Hal Marcus that had been removed from the Chamizal Cultural Center, and to negotiate an option to purchase at a later date.
Marcus's 33-year-old work, titled largely as an El Paso "Thanksgiving"/"Gracias Dios" panorama of borderlands…
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