Research Catalog

Title

The AAM guide to provenance research / Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha, Amy L. Walsh.

Author

Yeide, Nancy H., 1959-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : American Association of Museums, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Walsh, Amy
• Akinsha, Konstantin
• American Association of Museums

Description

vii, 304 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"The AAM Guide to Provenance Research is a much-needed contribution for scholars, professional researchers, and those who shape policy. Here in one volume is a historical overview, description of current methodology, invaluable indices, inventories, and lists of current databases-in-progress."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

• Guide to provenance research
• American Association of Museums guide to provenance research
• Provenance research

Subject

• KunstWerk
• 1900-1999
• Art > Research > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Art thefts > Germany > Research > 20th century > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Art treasures in war > Germany > History > 20th century
• Art > History > Germany > 20th century
• World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war

Genre/Form

Guide (Descripteur de forme)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Why is provenance important? 1 -- Major trends in collecting European art 1 -- Conducting provenance research 5 -- Part 1 Basic Provenance Research and Principles 7 -- What information do you need? 9 -- Chapter 2 Assembling the Information You Have 11 -- The object 11 -- Institutional files 15 -- Case study: Portrait of James Hay 17 -- Chapter 3 Library Research 21 -- The Artist 21 -- The Collector 24 -- Dealers 28 -- Auctions 28 -- Case study: Holbein, Sir Bryan Tuke 30 -- Chapter 4 How to Record Provenance 33 -- Part 2 Holocaust-Era Provenance Research 37 -- Chapter 6 Historical Overview 41 -- Key dates 41 -- Nazi collecting priorities 41 -- Case study: De Bles, Landscape with Burning City 44 -- Special case: The office of the alien property custodian and the "vesting" of cultural property 46 -- Chapter 7 Prioritizing Your Research 49 -- Mind the gap 49 -- Red flags 50 -- Case study: "Red-flag" names 52 -- Chapter 8 U.S. Resources 55 -- National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 55 -- Looting 58 -- Case study: Snyders, Still Life with Fruit and Game 68 -- Investigations 71 -- Case study: Two Matisse paintings from the Paul Rosenberg collection 74 -- Claims 78 -- Restitution 94 -- Other U.S. Resources 103 -- Case study: Degas, Landscape with Smokestacks 105 -- Chapter 9 European Resources 109 -- Archives, restitution agencies, and published losses 109 -- Special case: Sales from Soviet museums, 1928-31 134 -- Case study: Cranach, Adam and Eve 135 -- Appendices to Part 1 159.

ISBN

093120173X

LCCN

^^2001022688

OCLC

• 46671065
• SCSB-10299352

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library