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The case is unsolved; no arrests have been made, and no works have been recovered. The stolen works have been valued at hundreds of millions of dollars by the FBI and art dealers. The museum offers a $10 million reward for information leading to the art's recovery, the largest bounty ever offered by a private institution.
After twenty-five years, one of the country's most notorious art heists has still not been solved. Neither of the two robbers of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston have been captured ...
Gardner appointed her secretary and the former librarian of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Morris Carter (1877–1965) as the museum's first director. Carter catalogued the entire collection and wrote Gardner's definitive biography, Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court. George L. Stout (1897–1978) was the second director. The father of ...
The largest art theft in world history occurred in Boston on March 18, 1990, when thieves stole 13 pieces, collectively worth $500 million, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Among the pieces stolen was Landscape with an Obelisk, which had been attributed to Rembrandt. A reward of $5 million is still offered for information leading to ...
Nearly all of the jewels from Dresden’s dramatic Green Vault heist in 2019 will once again be on display in their original location. Five years after a $124-million museum heist shocked the ...
Thirteen works of art valued at $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by two men posing as police officers. The art was mostly stolen from the museum's Dutch Room and included pieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer. [37] Antwerp Diamond heist: Confirmed 2003 —
Terry Jon Martin, 76, admitted to stealing the iconic footwear from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 2005 18-year mystery solved as man pleads guilty to stealing ‘Wizard of ...
The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft. Smithsonian. ISBN 978-0-06-053117-1. A detailed account of the ongoing investigation into the robbery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. Connor, Myles J. (2009). The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-and-Roller, and Prodigal Son ...