Over 80 individuals and/or institutions have been a part of the conversation to try to shed light on solving the mystery of 24 missing Coppini works of art. John continues to have contact with leads. See previous list of organizations and individuals contacted to date. The Austin American Statesman, The Daily Texan and the Austin Chronicle [...]

I have lunch with James Powell. James is a native Austinite and a highly respected antiques dealer of 45 years. Out of left field, he asked me if I knew anything about "Victims of the Galveston Flood" statue as realized by Italian sculptor, Pompeo Coppini a few years after the Storm of 1900.  I had [...]

John writes to Peter Mears at the HRC and Blanton Museum. The list of those who might have information grows to Baylor, Galveston, and San Antonio and 70 individuals, institutions, organizations and media.

Coppini dies.

Carl Eckhardt, UT's long-time Director of the Physical Plant, makes a typewritten note to himself regarding UT's inability to "properly preserve" the Coppini gift collection over time. Eckhardt and Coppini had become close friends leading up to the Daughters’ of the American Revolution funding Coppini’s George Washington statue situated just south of the UT Tower.

Coppini’s requests for an answer as to the whereabouts of the Victims heroic reaches a crescendo in advance of his autobiography, From Dawn To Sunset, being published in 1949. We can find no evidence of a document where UT gives him an answer.