Jim, the "upside downing" story may be apocryphal, or the sort of urban myth that is behind many such anti-modernist accounts. As I said, I couldn't make a definite attribution, and a pearl dive through the materials I happen to have here in Taiwan hasn't been fruitful, so I shouldn't have added Harley's name to the account based merely on my dodgy memory. But the story's out there, I did read it, and now I'll be obsessed with finding it. As for the practicality of hanging a painting upside down, that's the sort of detail conveniently glossed over in most urban legends.
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