BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY DIRECTOR RESIGNS AFTER DüRER AND REMBRANDT WORKS VANISH FROM COLLECTION [UPDATED]

Boston Public Library president Amy E. Ryan announced her resignation Wednesday amid growing criticism, report the Boston Globe’s Shelley Murphy and Andrew Ryan. Amy Ryan’s been on the hotseat since two pieces of art were reported missing in April. The prints—an Albrecht Dürer engraving Adam and Eve, valued at $600,000, and a Rembrandt etching, Self-Portrait With Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre, valued at up to thirty thousand dollars, vanished from the library’s Copley Square outpost.

“I love Boston, and I love the Boston Public Library,” Ryan said. “I teamed up with the staff and the public and we accomplished a lot of great things.” She added that she was leaving to “allow the work of the Boston Public Library to continue without distraction.”

UPDATE, June 10, 2015, 9:22AM: On Thursday, June 4, both missing works of art have been found inside the main branch in the library’s print stacks, just eighty feet from where they were supposed to have been stored, report the Boston Herald’s Jaclyn Cashman and Matt Stout.

“We’ re thrilled to have found these treasures right here at home,” said Ryan, who added that the discovery doesn‘t change her decision to resign. Authorities are still looking into a report that a set of gold coins may have disappeared decades ago under the library’s watch as well.