Art And Stolen Work

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This essay will be about challenges faced by authorities in locating missing and stolen works of art and documents. Stolen artwork is a problem for perserving the past. Many works have been stolen over the centuries and this essay will show two articles about them. Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories by Tom Marshburg and Recovering Artwork Owned by the U.S. Government from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, are about many works disappearing. In Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist: 25 Years of Theories, the author, Tom Mashburg, writes about famous artwork being stolen. In March 1990, 13 artworks. including the Storm, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The F.B.I. issued a reward of $5 million. Now, over 25 years later, the works are worth $500 million. \ …show more content…

Government, from the F.B.I., is based on Walt Whitman's notebooks. In 1942, the notebooks being sent to a guarded facility in the Midwest. While being shipped, 10 notebooks were stolen. By 1995, 4 of the notebooks were found and recovered, but 6 remain lost. The National Stolen Art File (NSAF), General Services Administration (GSA), and the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) have been trying to find the stolen

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