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Montana and the horror of the Spanish Civil War.
    â€œIn the late 1940s, Jon changed his aesthetic vision,” Mrs. Corbino said. He moved “from the heroic themes of social and political crisis to the fantasy of the ballet and circus. Although these paintings featured action and color, there was an aura of illusion as opposed to a physical reality.”
    In the early 1950s, Corbino began a series of “Crucifixions,” a theme painted by all the great artists of the past.
    During his career his paintings appeared on the covers of art magazines, and feature articles about Corbino appeared in Esquire, Time, and Life, as well as in art magazines and newspapers. He was listed in Who’s Who in America.
    Corbino died in Sarasota of lung cancer in 1964. Today, almost a half-century later, his paintings remain in museums and galleries throughout the country.
    Marcia Corbino had been his widow for forty years when Joyce Wishart was murdered. Now, in the days after the murder, Mrs. Corbino felt the fear.
    â€œThe women in the neighborhood, and there were almost all women, were terrified for a good six months,” Corbino later said. “Every one of them tried to get their fathers, their husbands, or some other male to come to work with them for protection.”
    Not surprisingly, Mrs. Corbino knew the victim.
    â€œI met her at the gallery,” Mrs. Corbino said. “She was having a show of a friend of mine. Then a mutual friend of ours suggested that she invite me for lunch, to get some ideas about running a gallery. She was such a nice person, and so eager to make her gallery the best it could be. It had been a lifelong dream of hers, and now that dream was coming true. She knew nothing about running a gallery, but she was eager to learn, and a mutual friend recommended we get together.”
    Corbino had operated a gallery with her son for eighteen years and knew the ropes. Wishart had no experience and was hungry for all of the advice she could get. Wishart was a quick study, as it turned out. She usually featured the work of artists who had been recommended to her, and those whom she had thoroughly researched.
    Mrs. Corbino—who had no idea her writing was considered an integral part of the crime scene—still assumed that she would be among the first to be interviewed by police. As it turned out, they didn’t get to her until several weeks later.
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    A woman named Kay Yount contacted SPD sergeant Philip DeNiro and told him she’d seen a possibly abandoned satchel in an alley near the Provenance on Sunday, January 18. It was gone by the time police looked for it.
    Officer DeNiro interviewed Linda Joffe, who said she was a friend of Wishart’s, although she was not familiar with the details of her life. They knew each other because she was marketing director for the West Coast Symphony at the same time Wishart held the same position for the Asolo Repertory Theatre. It was her impression that Wishart had four children, but two were estranged from her. One was believed to live in Italy. Two had not forgiven her for changing her lifestyle.
    Joffe said that when Wishart left the Asolo, it was on a harsh note. She’d had major conflicts with the theater’s executive director. Joffe thought there might still be a lawsuit pending. Joffe thought Wishart had a lover, but she didn’t know his name. Joffe was pretty sure it was a long-distance relationship, that the guy was from out of state. They only saw each other a couple of times a year.
    DeNiro quickly found the theater’s managing director with whom Wishart had had difficulties. Her name was Linda DiGabriele, and she said she hadn’t seen Wishart in more than a year, the last time at an arts event at the opera house. She said there was nothing remarkable about Wishart’s leaving the theater, that her contract had come up for renewal and it was not renewed. She recalled no harsh note. There was no