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NYPD investigates art heist with an Alabama connection

Saturday Evening Post

NEW YORK (AP) - The NYPD is investigating after a Norman Rockwell was discovered missing from a Queens storage unit. According to the New York Post, the painting recently sold at auction for $1 million. The 1939 painting was discovered missing last month from Welpark Art Moving and Storage in Ridgewood, Queens. It's titled "Sport" and depicts a man in a row boat wearing a yellow rain jacket and smoking a pipe. The Post says the oil painting was sold by a private collector in Birmingham, Ala., at a Sotheby's auction on May 22. Anyone with information about the missing work is asked to contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.

Pat Duggins is news director for Alabama Public Radio.
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