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Over twenty-five years ago, between July 27 and August 2, 1998, Jean Metzinger’s early 20th century cubist painting, “Man with a Pipe,” also known as “Portrait of an American Smoking,” disappeared in transit while on loan from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. A Little History About Where the Theft Happened Lawrence University, a private liberal…

Over eight years ago, on April 7, 2016, seven of the ten silkscreen prints from set 31 of Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup I” series were stolen in an overnight burglary from a pop art exhibit at the Springfield Art Museum in Springfield, Missouri. The prints stolen were Warhol’s monumental depictions of Campbell’s Beef, Vegetable, Tomato,…

Over forty-five years ago, on March 4, 1978, priceless ceremonial swords and daggers given as gifts to President Harry S. Truman, the thirty-third president of the United States, while he was in office, were stolen from the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum in Independence, Missouri. One of those gifts, from King Ibn Saud…

Over fifty-three years ago, in June 1971, more than 30 historical firearms and other artifacts, including two engraved powder horns from 1776 and 1758, were stolen from the Old Stone Fort Museum in Schoharie, New York. A Little History About Where the Theft Happened The Old Stone Fort Museum is located in Schoharie County in…

Over forty-five years ago, in the winter of 1979, two very similar pieces of American folk art – wooden eagles with spread wings carved by Wilhelm Schimmel in the late 19th century – were stolen from two museums in Pennsylvania. One of those Schimmel eagles was stolen on January 9, 1979 from the Reading Public…