Copyright, Coincidence Led To Loeb Fracas

A Damian Loeb painting titled “Blow Job (Three Little Boys)” that was removed from a University of Hartford exhibition does, in fact, depict the sons of a wealthy businessman with ties to the school, staff and faculty say. “And Douglas S. Cramer, the collector who lent the works for the show, said the university had informed him that the boys’ family was distressed by the painting. … But by every account, from the curator to Mr. Cramer to Mr. Loeb, the painting’s removal was less a clear censorship case than it was one of copyright and surprising coincidence.”