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Case

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Heist

In the early hours after St. Patrick's Day 1990, two men dressed as police officers talked their way into the Gardner Museum and left with thirteen works of art. It remains the largest unsolved property theft in history.

Person

Anthony M. Amore

Director of Security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the leading investigator on its unsolved 1990 heist. Amore has written extensively on art theft and forgery and continues to pursue leads on the thirteen works taken from the Gardner.

Artwork

The Concert

One of only around thirty-four surviving Vermeers and among the most valuable stolen objects in the world. Taken from the Gardner in 1990, its whereabouts remain unknown.

Artwork

Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee

Rembrandt's only known seascape, cut from its frame during the 1990 Gardner heist and still missing.

Artwork

Program for an Artistic Soirée

One of five Degas works on paper taken in the 1990 Gardner heist and still missing.

Artwork

Cortège aux Environs de Florence

A Degas drawing among the thirteen works stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.

Artwork

Three Mounted Jockeys

A Degas racing scene taken in the Gardner heist and never recovered.

Artwork

La Sortie de Pesage

Another Degas racecourse study among the Gardner's thirteen missing works.

Artwork

Self-Portrait (etching)

A postage-stamp-sized Rembrandt self-portrait etching, the smallest of the objects taken in the 1990 Gardner heist.

Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

A Venetian-style palazzo in Boston built to house Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection. In 1990 it became the site of the largest unsolved art theft in history; by the terms of Gardner's will, the empty frames of the stolen works still hang in place, awaiting their return.

Story

Three Decades On, the Gardner Reward Still Stands at $10 Million

The museum reaffirms its offer as investigators mark another anniversary of the unsolved 1990 heist.

Essay

The Aesthetics of Absence

What the empty frame teaches us about value, memory, and the strange afterlife of stolen art.