Family recognized stolen Rockwell painting by pool-cue hole - News Summed Up

Family recognized stolen Rockwell painting by pool-cue hole


A family who lost a Norman Rockwell painting in a burglary at their home over 40 years ago got it back Friday and knew for sure it was theirs because of a scrape and hole the exact size of the butt-end of a pool cue. The 1919 painting, valued at $1 million and known as "Taking a Break" and "Lazybones," was returned to members of the Grant family by FBI art-crimes agents in Philadelphia. How the Grant family came to own the painting might be an even better story. Once the painting was found, the insurer decided "the right thing to do" was return the painting to the family for the same $15,000, he said. The company will donate that payment to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, he said.


Source: ABC News March 31, 2017 18:50 UTC



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