Nearly four decades after a Willem de Kooning painting was violently cut from its frame at a museum and kept in a couple’s bedroom, the newly restored work, likely worth well above $100 million, will ...

37 years after the theft of Willem de Kooning's multi-million dollar painting, the UA Museum of Art unveils the restored artwork of "Woman-Ochre" TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — After all this time, the ...

A long-lost painting by Willem de Kooning, Woman-Ochre (1955), has been rediscovered, and is now making a victory lap in the U.S. A pair of schoolteachers, Jerry and Rita Alter, are thought to have ...

LOS ANGELES — After almost three years of work, a team of conservators at the J. Paul Getty Museum have successfully restored and repaired a painting that was violently stolen in 1985 and are ...

On the day after Thanksgiving in 1985, a man and a woman entered the nearly deserted University of Arizona Museum of Art and left after only a few minutes. Moments later, a security guard discovered ...

After a Willem de Kooning painting worth millions was brazenly stolen in 1985 from an Arizona museum, the staff clung to the hope that it would turn up one day. But nobody could have predicted ...

Baltimore businessman and architect Edward Joseph Gallagher Jr. donated hundreds of paintings and sculptures to museums in memory of his late son, who died in a boating accident at age 13. He wanted ...

The Southwest’s most brazen robbery didn’t occur from horseback against a stagecoach by a gang of masked desperadoes. It wasn’t 11 dashing and charismatic career hustlers knocking over three Las Vegas ...

There was a time not too long ago when “Willem de Kooning and Italy,” at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, in Venice, would have had fans back in the U.S. gnashing their teeth. We are talking, after all, ...

A Parisian-born oil heiress, she collected art and supported major artists, designed costumes and moved in rarefied social and cultural circles. By David A. Andelman Images from 1965 of the ...