Art Crime

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,” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]