Anne Ryman is an award-winning journalist and Arizona resident since 1991
SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The FBI is now involved in the search for two Western paintings stolen nearly 40 years ago from a museum and last seen in Scottsdale.
After the Alters died, the de Kooning wound up in an antique store in 2017 in nearby Silver City, whose owners quickly realized it was stolen and returned it to the University of Arizona, where it has been stolen in 1985. He was the first to connect the dots that the paintings auctioned in Scottsdale were the same ones stolen from the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico, in 1985.
The librarian told police he remembered seeing a man with a mustache and wearing a black raincoat, leave the museum. The raincoat reference is eerily similar to witness descriptions of the de Kooning theft at the University of Arizona, which would happen six months later. In that theft, one of the thieves wore a trench coat.
Margot Cravens, a spokeswoman for the FBI Albuquerque Division, confirmed the FBI’s involvement in the case of the Hardwood Museum paintings.
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