Davis Museum resignation, longer story

David Mickenberg has resigned as director of Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center, two weeks after news broke that the museum's prized 1921 painting by Fernand Léger had gone missing.

In a statement to faculty yesterday, Wellesley's president, H. Kim Bottomly, said she had accepted Mickenberg's resignation to "pursue other opportunities." The four-paragraph statement includes no mention of "Woman and Child," part of a family-themed series by the celebrated French cubist, which was donated to the museum in 1954. Last year, the average Léger painting sold for $2.8 million.

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