Stolen Art Alert

With the recovery this month of five important works stolen in 1979 from a New York gallery, the FBI is displaying a larger role in detecting and recovering stolen art. The FBI’s computerized National Stolen Art Files and special relationships built with local museums have helped

Janitor seeks $100,000 reward from the Art Institute of Chicago in the recovery of its three stolen Cézannes.

Manhattan art dealers report visits from shoplifting thieves continuing their spree.

Eighteenth-century portrait of Samuel Buell found with other stolen items on premises of Long Island Historical Society; five paintings from a Madrid private collection recovered and a Belgian, two Spanish and two Portuguese citizens have been arrested.

Remington painting (Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, 1890) stolen from the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, may be linked to a rash of other thefts of works by Remington and Charles Russell in the Midwest; Eighteenth-Century Indian bronze of Hanuman was stolen from Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.