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Shown with a few of the 14 paintings for his Sarasota Museum of the Cross (later opened in November 1966). The museum would be broken into on April 16, 1969 and the paintings stolen. The robbery would be called "The second largest art theft of the decade" with the value estimated at $1.5 million.

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Joseph Janney Steinmetz was a world-renowned commercial photographer whose images appeared in such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Life, Look, Time, Holiday, Collier's, and Town & Country. His work has been referred to as "an American social history," which documented diverse scenes of American life from affluent northeasterners to middle-class Floridians. Steinmetz moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Sarasota, Florida in 1941.