Forgotten Minnesota artist Henry Hayek’s paintings and murals have popped up in Bloomington, Brooklyn Park and Shoreview.

Despite the years of research and thousands of dollars spent, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam says the painting sold at a Minnetonka garage sale is not one of the artist's works.

His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at foundational interactions between viewers, art objects, and art institutions.