Cops look for painting after art heist

From WPRI.com TV: Cops look for painting after art heist

$675 oil abstract vanished from gallery Fri.
By Bill Tomison
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (WPRI) - It may not be the "Mona Lisa" or "The Scream," but 'The Fist" is worth several hundred dollars, and now New Bedford police are on the hunt for an art thief.

Someone stole the painting from Crowell's Fine Art Gallery and Fine Framing Studio on Acushnet Ave. sometime around noon Friday - removing the 20" x 20" oil on canvas right from the gallery wall.

Gallery owner Kate Levin said in a news release Monday that the Evan LaPorte painting -- an abstract work of mostly blue or teal, with greens and reds and yellows -- is valued at $675.

She said the painting - which is about the size of a large pizza box - vanished sometime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. It was being featured in a solo exhibition by LaPorte which is running until Jan. 31.

Police are looking for the painting, and if you have any idea on its whereabouts you're asked to call the New Bedford Police Department at (508) 991-6300.