Events

Join us for a screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the heist of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, which was brazenly cut from its frame in 1985 while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. Thirty-two years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works—but a very unconventional method of collecting them. This same couple was also responsible for stealing two paintings from Harwood Museum, which have just been returned by the FBI and will be unveiled to the public for the first time prior to the screening.

Trailer: https://youtu.be/1tT9oFa1k7A

This screening is free and open to the public. It is part of our First Friday programming. Join us at 5:00pm for panel featuring those involved in the story since the 1980s.

Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!

Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum!

This months program will celebrate the homecoming of two Taos treasures by Taos Society of Artists Victor Higgins and Joseph Henry Sharp—Aspens and Oklahoma Cheyenne (also known as Indian Boy in Full Dress), stolen off Harwood Museum walls in 1985.

The stolen works will be revealed to the public on June 6 at 4:30 pm MST.

There will be a Q & A featuring Harwood Executive Director Juniper Leherissey, art heist reporter Lou Schachter, David van Auken, co-owner of Manzanita Ridge Furniture and Antiques, who helped break open this story with the discovery of the University of Arizona’s Art Museum’s missing Woman-Ocher by Willem de Kooning, and David Witt, who was Harwood Museum’s curator at the time of the 1985 Harwood art heist. The panel will be followed by a special screening of The Thief Collector, a captivating crime documentary about the couple that stole of one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, as well the two paintings from Harwood Museum.

Program Schedule

4:30pm           Public Unveiling and Remarks

5:00pm          Q & A

5:30pm           Screening of The Thief Collector