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The Purloined Rockwell - Stolen in St. Louis in '73. Found today -- on Steven Spielberg's wall
riverfronttimes.com ^
| February 28, 2007
| Kristen Hinman
Posted on 03/02/2007 8:49:58 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: festus
Did they have insurance in 1989? Is there a serious art collector anywhere who does not insure his collection?
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posted on
03/02/2007 10:59:39 PM PST
by
msnimje
(If we have a choice of two PRO ABORTION candidates, this country is doomed.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
There are only X number of Rockwells...so when a dealer gets ready to put it on the market...you would absolutely expect him to provide information on the item...who owned it...the history...etc. This whole story smells bogus. How did Spielberg acquire it in the first place? I'm betting he knew more about the story. Alot of Hollywood types buy stolen art and just keep it for private showings.
To: Calvin Locke
Spielberg is pushing 60. He grew up surrounded by Norman Rockwell--on magazine covers, calenders, posters, prints hanging in the classroom, in public buildings and later mugs, placematts, lunchboxes with Norman Rockwell art on them.
Both men aim their work at the largest mass audience they can reach which they call the ordinary man. Though Rockwell worked in a completely different medium I can imagine Spielberg may identify him as some kind of historic mentor.
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posted on
03/02/2007 11:27:02 PM PST
by
Brad from Tennessee
(Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
To: Harpo Speaks
Surely you're not suggestion that ol' Stephen "penis breath" Spielberg would himself steal a painting(?)
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posted on
03/03/2007 12:03:53 AM PST
by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: HAL9000
To: GOPJ
"Hey, he's a liberal elite. He don't have to follow no friggin laws. Laws is for da little people."
Also somebody should ask this putz Spielberg about his huge and secret gun collection. I guess if guns are banned, his buddies in Sacramento will let him keep his.
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posted on
03/03/2007 1:30:44 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: HAL9000
LOL, you guys are killing me with your photoshops! :-)
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posted on
03/03/2007 1:32:02 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: sockmonkey
To say nothing of whoever carries the insurance on his art collection, eh?Oh, you are so right.
It would be interesting to know WHERE this picture was hung, wouldn't it?
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posted on
03/03/2007 1:36:41 AM PST
by
Howlin
(Honk if you like Fred Thompson!!!)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
"Laws are for the "little people" anyway."
Which also should explain his gun control support while in possession of a private arsenal that would suit a medium sized police force.
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posted on
03/03/2007 2:11:25 AM PST
by
ko_kyi
To: HAL9000
"It appears that he is an innocent buyer," says St. Louis-based FBI agent Frank Brostrom, a member of the agency's Art Crime Team, who initiated the investigation.I call bulls***. I remember this story (stolen Rockwell painting) from last year. Spielberg is playing victim. All liberals do it.
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posted on
03/03/2007 2:39:13 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
(There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
To: HAL9000
Show Off! :)
He's going to get away with it, you know..
sw
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posted on
03/03/2007 5:14:16 AM PST
by
spectre
(Spectre's wife) (Duncan Hunter 08 "Will you join us"?)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Spielberg is Hollywood. Hollywood types think that they're are above the masses.
Rockwell is too normal to appeal to someone in Hollywood, other than to mock.
To: HAL9000
Spielberg purchased the painting in 1989 BG (before Google).
Anybody who knowingly buys a famous stolen painting is not going to publicly display it. It will be locked in a vault somewhere.
To: HAL9000
I guess it was payback for all the art the Nazis stole from the Jews.
To: HAL9000
1. If he's an avid collector, he'd have known of pieces that had been stolen.
2. Surely, he did not buy it at a public auction. He'd have bought it privately, which is suspicious.
3. He thinks so little of the public that he was confident no one would recognize it displayed in plain sight.
He knew it was stolen.
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posted on
03/03/2007 5:56:41 AM PST
by
ryan71
(You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
To: HAL9000
And now the picture of the painting has ALREADY been removed from the FBI.gov website!
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:39:10 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: ryan71
"He knew it was stolen."I agree with you; just read the newspaper story linked: it's been widely known at least among Rockwell collectors that this piece was stolen.
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:43:34 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: HAL9000
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posted on
03/03/2007 6:49:32 AM PST
by
spanalot
To: Calvin Locke
Rockwell is too normal to appeal to someone in Hollywood, other than to mock
Give me a break. The feeling in Spileberg's best films can only be described as Rockwellian.
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posted on
03/03/2007 7:25:37 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Borges
I didn't say he hasn't made good films, or that he knows what sells.
But I'm still surprised that he's a Rockwell fan. Rockwell painted life at the moment. Spielberg digitized guns into cellphones, succumbing to avant-garde Hollywood think (via his goddaughter, so the story goes).
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