FAR® Investigative Report
Fine Art Registry™ Investigative Report: FAR Case Study on the true identity of Teri Horton's artwork, is it an original Jackson Pollock, or is she being mislead by supposed experts. Fine Art Registry news, articles and research into Teri Horton's claims.
Case Study: Teri Horton's Alleged Jackson Pollock Painting
April 2007:
FAR® Press Room: Art & Antiques Magazine April issue, Fine Art Registry™
Not one but two Fine Art Registry related articles appeared in the April 2007 issue of art&antiques as well as a reference to FAR as a resource in protecting your art from theft. The first article Thumbs Down in Pollock Fingerprint Analysis, concerns fingerprint examiner Thomas Hanley’s findings from his investigation in art restorer Peter Paul Biro’s forensic “authentication” of the painting bought by Teri Horton in Southern California which has since attained notoriety as a possible Pollock. The article in art&antiques magazine states that Chief Hanley was commissioned by the CEO of FAR to conduct an independent examination and he found that the fingerprints presented on the website as evidence that the painting was by Jackson Pollock were of no value for identification purposes. Also that he would reopen the case if given access to the original prints used by Biro
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January, 2007:
FAR® Newsletter: The Latest in the Teri Horton/Jackson Pollock Saga
Questionable art brokers, respected art experts, a Hollywood producer and now fingerprint analysts have joined Teri Horton’s fray in an attempt to prove whether or not her unregistered, uncertified $5 painting with no recorded provenance is an authentic Jackson Pollock or the work of another artist.
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A just issued preliminary report from Thomas Hanley, Chief of Police in Middlebury, Vermont, and veteran fingerprint examiner with close to 30 years experience in fingerprint identification, casts doubts on Paul Biro's claims of proving "authenticity" of a possible Pollock painting belonging to the Parker family of Long Island. Biro claimed that the "Jackson Pollock fingerprint" he found on the back of the Parkers' painting was "the same print as the one on Teri Horton's painting." Biro's much media-hyped work on the Horton painting has been withheld from peer scrutiny by Horton and Biro.
