Lose a Leger, lose your job?

You have to wonder if heads will roll at Wellesley College's Davis Museum and Cultural Center after the staff lost track of a 1921 painting by cubist Fernand Leger, apparently for good. Traveler's Insurance paid out its largest fine-art settlement ever to the museum, an amount the Globe places in the low seven figures. No one at the Davis is talking, but the Globe says the painting disappeared after spending about a year on loan to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art along with some other works belonging to the Davis. It was packed and shipped, but after that...? Some speculate it might have been stolen en route in April 2007, but that begs the question of why the disappearance wasn't noticed before last fall. It seems quite  possible instead that, amid renovation confusion at the museum, the work was never taken out of its crate before the crate was destroyed. And that one lands squarely on the plate of museum officials charged with its safe-keeping.