Henri Matisse's "The Plumed Hat," left, and Paul Gauguin's "Two Tahitian Women" have each been attacked by Susan Burns in 2011, the police said. (CBS/nga.gov)
(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON - A woman who attacked a painting at Washington's National Gallery of Art earlier this year has struck again, police say, this time lashing out against a Henri Matisse painting at the museum. Susan Burns of Alexandria, Va., was arrested Aug. 5 after police say she walked over to Matisse's 1919 painting "The Plumed Hat," and slammed the painting repeatedly against a wall, damaging its frame but not the $2.5 million painting. The 53-year-old Burns was arrested in April for attacking an $80 million Paul Gauguin painting called "Two Tahitian Women." As a condition of her release she promised she would stay away from all museums and art galleries in Washington. In the April incident, Burns was accused of pounding on Gauguin's painting and trying to rip it from a wall, telling police the post-Impressionist artist was evil and the painting should be burned, court documents show. According to charging documents, an investigator told Burns her rights and asked why she had tried to remove the painting. "I feel that Gauguin is evil. He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it's very homosexual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned," according to the documents. Burns also said: "I am from the American CIA and I have a radio in my head. I am going to kill you." - CBS
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