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George Hunt (July 6, 1933 – December 4, 2020) was a Southern American artist, best known for his portraits of Blues musicians and illustrations for Blues Festivals, which ended up in many private collections in addition to galleries, museums, and the walls of Memphis businesses. He was primarily a painter, though he added collage highlights ...
A historic English painting stolen by New Jersey mobsters more than 50 years ago has been returned to its owner after a two-year FBI investigation. 'Priceless' 18th-century painting returned after ...
Kempton Bunton (14 June 1904–April 1976) was an English man who confessed to taking Francisco Goya's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London in 1961. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The story of Bunton and the painting was the subject of the October 2015 BBC Radio 4 drama Kempton and the Duke , and the 2020 film The ...
George and Dot's great-grandson, also an artist named George, is at a museum unveiling his latest work, a reflection on Seurat's painting in the form of a light machine called "Chromolume #7." George presents the work, grounding its connection to the painting by inviting his 98-year-old grandmother, Marie, to help him present the work.
Art theft at MSU Texas over the weekend means two paintings — created by university alums and long displayed in the Fain Fine Arts Center — are apparently lost forever somewhere in a landfill.
Thirteen works were stolen. In 1990, the FBI estimated the value of the theft at $200 million [42] and raised the estimate to $500 million by 2000. [42] In the late 2000s, some art dealers suggested that the total value of the stolen artwork could be $600 million. [43] It is considered the highest-value museum robbery in history. [citation needed]
It is not only the largest art theft in Canada [2] [5] but the largest theft in Canadian history. [7] [8] Investigation of the crime proved difficult in the early going, since it occurred over the Labour Day holiday weekend, when many of the museum's officials including its director were vacationing far away from Montreal.
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist is a 2021 American documentary miniseries about the 1990 robbery of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. [1] [2] [3] The four-part series was directed by Colin Barnicle, who also produced alongside his brother Nick Barnicle. The series was produced over a seven-year period, beginning in ...