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THE HEIST ISSUE
YOU COULD FILL A MUSEUM CHAPMAN STICK, paint seven murals for her Long Island
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
1977, EMMETT
commissioned Maxfield Parrish to
CHAPMAN
mansion in 1914. When the house was
were put up for sale. In 2002, when
ISAMU NOGUCHI
they were on view at a Los Angeles
On Sept. 8, 2011, a man wearing a ski sold, the murals were removed and six GARDEN ELEMENTS, 1962,
mask and holding a semiautomatic gallery, a thief cut through the ceiling
weapon broke into a home in Houston, and stole two of them.
demanding money and jewelry. The
owner provided it, and on his way out, La Dame a la Toilette (1895-1901),
the burglar also took a 1918 Renoir, an early Picasso, was stolen
Madeleine Leaning on Her Elbow With from a Long Island estate in April 1982.
Flowers in Her Hair. The burglars were caught and the EDITION, 2008, DALE CHIHULY DAKOTA MACCHIA STUDIO
painting was returned—but two years
later, in 1984, it was stolen again
from the same home.
GILDED CAGE, 1963,
MARGARET KEANE
THE WHITE FLAG, 1962, SPECIAL NO. 21, 1916-17,
ALEXANDER CALDER GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
THE RING MAGAZINE’S
1941 BOXING BELT CONCRETE BIRDBATH,
TROPHY FOR THE 1900-41
WORLD MIDDLEWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP AL HIRSCHFELD THE END, 2003,

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MR. CLOUD, 2004,
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2000 RUTH SNYDER BONE RAINBOW, 2005,
and after