Two paintings stolen from the University of New Mexico’s Harwood Museum of Art in 1985 have been recovered and returned, four decades after they vanished from the museum’s second floor, according to the FBI’s Albuquerque Field Office.

The works — one by Victor Higgins and another by Joseph Henry Sharp — were taken in March 1985, when the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico, was still operating primarily as a public library, the FBI said. The theft went unsolved for decades.

In the spring of 2024, the museum notified the FBI, prompting the Art Crime Team at the field office to review the case. After consulting with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico, the FBI opened a formal investigation, the agency said. The paintings were located, recovered and returned to the Ha

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