Don't mean to sound insensitive, but if the art is that valuable, why is the amount of the reward so low?

No one is cooking meth in a rental truck. 1. You can no longer get the ingredients to cook properly (you still shake & bake, but you might kill yourself in the process for a small amount). 2. The Mexican cartels have taken over 99% of the meth business. Essentially putting your friendly local neighborhood meth cook into a different profession, such as stealing U-Hauls.

Two paintings have been recovered—I just read about it in this hilarious account from June 10, 2014 (The Seattle Times): http://seattletimes.com/html/thearts/202…