Paintings with ties to an infamous New Mexico couple have been returned to the museum they were stolen from 40 years ago. Last Friday, officials at the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art ...

Two paintings stolen from the Harwood Museum of Art are back on display after 45 years. After a lengthy FBI investigation, the works by Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp were recovered undamaged.

The FBI recently recovered two paintings stolen four decades ago from the University ... of two Taos treasures by Taos Society of Artists Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp—Aspens and Oklahoma ...

The paintings included Victor Higgins’s oil on canvas Aspens (1932) and Joseph Henry Sharp’s portrait Oklahoma Cheyenne (1915 ...

The piece was created by Sharp in 1905 and gifted to the Billings Chamber of Commerce in 1915 by Charles Bair, a friend of the artist’s and a well-known businessman.

APPRAISER: So this is a painting by Joseph Henry Sharp. GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: Uh, who was an American painter. He was born in 1859 in, in Ohio, and moved to the Cincinnati area as a teenager.

An Antiques Roadshow guest brought in a 1900 Joseph Henry Sharp oil painting. (Image: PBS) “When I first saw it, I knew exactly who painted it,” Abeyta stated.

The art wing of the Bair Museum has original works by Charles Marion Russell, Joseph Henry Sharp, J. K. Ralston, Edward S. Curtis and more. There’s a large display case full of Native American ...

Two paintings that were stolen from the University of New Mexico's Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, New Mexico four decades ago were recently recovered by the FBI. Victor Higgins' oil painting Aspens (c ...