Art restitution

Higgins and Sharp paintings returned to Harwood after forty years

Taos, New Mexico, United States · Source report date:

Victor Higgins, Aspens, c.1932. UNM Harwood Museum of Art / FBI.
Victor Higgins, Aspens, c.1932. UNM Harwood Museum of Art / FBI. Image source ↗
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The FBI announced that Victor Higgins’s Aspens and Joseph Henry Sharp’s Oklahoma Cheyenne were returned to Harwood Museum on 12 May 2025. Stolen in 1985, the works were publicly unveiled in June. The announcement did not report a conviction for the theft.

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Art restitutionVictor HigginsJoseph Henry Sharp

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Rembrandt, Self-Portrait (1630), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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