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Mechanic finds art by abstract artist Francis Hines worth millions
A Connecticut guy is poised to make tens of millions soon after he observed hundreds of artworks by an abstract artist identified as “New York’s wrapper” in a dumpster. Automobile mechanic Jared Whipple was alerted to the trove of paintings and other artwork by Francis Hines by a contractor who was clearing a barn to be sold in Watertown in September 2017, CT Insider claimed. Whipple afterwards identified out that the artwork was designed by Hines, a Washington, DC-born artist who lived in Connecticut and New York before his death in 2016 at the age of 96. “Hines is truly New York’s wrapper,” artwork curator and historian Peter Hastings Falk…