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Arizona museum exhibit marks end to de Kooning painting saga

The space is almost ready to display the return of Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" next week at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, in Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. The painting will soon be displayed again at the museum where it was stolen from 37 years ago. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

Registrar Kristen Schmidt takes stock of the painting "Seated Man" by Elaine de Kooning, wife of Willem de Kooning, while working on the exhibit Abstract Perspectives in Mid-Century Art, which will display in conjunction with the return of Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre" at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Ariz., Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (Kelly Presnell/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

FILE "Woman-Ochre," a painting by Willem de Kooning, is readied for examination by University of Arizona Museum of Art staff Nathan Saxton, left, and Kristen Schmidt in Tucson, Ariz., in August 2017. After the painting was stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum, staff clung to the hope that it would turn up one day. The oil painting is finally back home and ready to be shown. It will be the centerpiece of an exhibition opening Oct. 8, 2022, until May 2023 at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. (Robert Demers/University of Arizona Communications via AP, File)

Arizona museum exhibit marks end to de Kooning painting saga