Rockwell painting believed found
The FBI has recovered a painting that appears to be a Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago.
Law enforcement officials believe the painting could be the original of Rockwell’s “Russian Schoolroom,” snatched during a late-night burglary at a gallery in Clayton, Mo., on June 25, 1973.
“We think we have located it. It has not been authenticated,” said FBI spokesman Pete Krusing. He would not say how or where the painting was discovered, only that it was not in the St. Louis area. No one has been charged in the case, he said.
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