[CPProt.net] FBI posts stolen Parrish images

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ART
FBI posts stolen Parrish images
-- Mike Boehm

December 8, 2005

Angling for a break in a 3 1/2-year-old West Hollywood art theft that
stumped authorities, the FBI has posted images on its new Top Ten Art Crimes
website of two Maxfield Parrish canvases that were cut from their frames and
swiped in an overnight, through-the-roof break-in.

At the time, in July 2002, investigators and art experts wondered why
thieves would steal just two canvases in a series of six linked panels that
a Texas oilman and his Colorado-based co-owner had placed for sale at
Edenhurst Gallery. The paintings, roughly 5 feet by 6 feet and showing young
men and women in Renaissance garb strolling near a sculpture of an urn, are
valued at up to $2 million each.

The Top Ten list includes stolen Iraqi treasures, a Van Gogh and Edvard
Munch's "The Scream." The Parrish canvases, executed in 1914 for a series
that hung in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's 5th Avenue Manhattan mansion, can
be seen - and tips concerning their whereabouts can be offered - at
www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/arttheft.htm.