Stolen Painting Found With Steven Spielberg

WNBC Television ^ | 3/3/2007 | Puppage

[cripplecreek]

I wonder if that Pelicano guy did any Speilberg work for Hillary?

[jimbo123]

"Hey, Steve, old friend. You better get your homo friend Geffen to shut his stinkin' trap."

[seowulf]

I think there's a movie in this story somewhere.

[cripplecreek]

I would also like to know what the writing on the wall of the classroom says.

[L98Fiero]

"Funny how this news comes out a few days after Spielberg hosts a fundraiser for Obama Osama Hussein.

Hillary just put Hollywood on notice..."

LOL!! You forgot the /s.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Actually, expensive stolen paintings go onto a hot sheet distributed to "reputable" art dealers. One of the ways that prominent art dealers remain "reputable" is by ensuring that the seller has clear title.

[jimbo123]

This definitely sounds like a Pellicano job contracted by Hillary from years ago. Hillary had this dirt in the can for a long time and was just waiting for the appropriate time to release it. This is a message from Hillary to Geffen.

[Caramelgal]

‘An unusal composition, given most of Rockwell's canvases are generally in classic portrate format. To my eye, the key kid is the one in the back looking "off message" and "to his right" (ged it?) dreaming of what it could be.’

Rockwell was a master of the modern school of realism and a master at expressing everyday human emotions and American values.

I think it’s meaningful that the kids looking toward the Lennon bust appear obedient, soulless and unimaginative while the kid looking off to the right has his head held higher in prospective to the others and has a defiant air about him.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I would also like to know what the writing on the wall of the classroom says.

"Politically correct thinking will be rewarded. Politically incorrect thinking will be punished."

[mtbopfuyn]

Give him a break. He bought it 20 years ago, before the internet and easy access to information. He bought it from a legitimate art dealer. If I buy a car from a legitimate auto dealer I'm not going to wonder if it was stolen.

Puleeze, like you're going to just wake up Tuesday and decide you're going to buy a car without doing a little shopping around? Not one single kicked tire? No checking out the mileage or the engine? Not even bothering to ask your drunk brother in law what he thinks? Twenty years ago was not the Dark Ages.

[opticks]

Yeah, how they did not know it was stolen is pretty amazing considering most of the folks at auction were probably experts.

But what a great painting. The determination of the girl in front contrasting with the boy looking out the window is wonderful.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I see the boy in the third row as;

Even in a hard line Communist classroom, where all eyes MUST be glued to the front of the class, there is always that "dreamer" the one who thinks outside the box. That the human spirit cannot be contained, no matter how legalistic the ideology.

Knowing Rockwell's favorite message in most of his work, human nature exposed, it brings back many old Saturday Evening Post cover shots to my memory. I miss the America of that era.

[Arrowhead1952]

OOPS

[em2vn]

Thanks for adding some sense to this thing. Who in the art world in 1973 would have been interested in a break in at the Clayton, Missouri gallery?
I'm sure the baseball Cardinals box scores made it to the West coast but not the local crime sheet.

[linda_22003]

It's definitely not long enough for that; I can perhaps puzzle it out if anyone knows where I can get a large image of the painting, but it doesn't have enough size or contrast for me to read it in the images I've seen.

[Bahbah]

I went looking to see if I could find an American classroom scene for comparison. I didn't, but I did come across this.

[poobear]

"...the bust of Lenin must have “sealed-the-deal” for Spielberg."

BWAAAAHAAAHAAAHAAA!

[Netizen]

Rockwell was a master of the modern school of realism and a master at expressing everyday human emotions and American values.I think it’s meaningful that the kids looking toward the Lennon bust appear obedient, soulless and unimaginative while the kid looking off to the right has his head held higher in prospective to the others and has a defiant air about him.

Soulless? Really? I don't see that at all. As much as Rockwell painted realism, I think he's just showing that whether its an American classroom or a Russian classroom, kids are kids and there's always one dreaming or looking out the window.

[leilani]

Your federal tax dollars at work. We have a porous border

They can't track down (won't) illegal aliens, that cost us all billions

Sometimes I can't decide if you guys are for real or are just putting us all on.

By your logic, the FBI should stop investigating bank robberies until every last illegal alien is rounded up as well, right?

[Non-Sequitur]

Actually, expensive stolen paintings go onto a hot sheet distributed to "reputable" art dealers. One of the ways that prominent art dealers remain "reputable" is by ensuring that the seller has clear title.

If I'm dealing with an established gallery I'm going to assume that they're one of the reputable ones. I can't see how Spielberg can be faulted for not conducting his own investigation into the painting if he had no reason to doubt the seller.