Oct 31, 2019

DATASET MOMA Provenance Research Project (PRP) artworks



Dataset name: Enhanced MoMA PRP

Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from  information available on the public internet site of the Museum of Modern Art MoMA. It merges the list of artworks on the MoMa Provenance Research Project page with provenance texts published on the MoMA's detailed item pages. It is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians and families. 



Original data sources that were merged to create new dataset:


Format: Google Sheet

URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR2Xl_gm3I8l0uHhxklJW4aZNYwEV5reEa-7JbKdIk93Li0iqtm1OkWBUY_6KkCE3dOwiKFwtnds_jx/pubhtml

Download: CSV


Contents:
1. PRP Artworks with provenance 
(Artist,Title,Date,Medium,Dimensions,URL,Acc_Number,Department,Provenance,Publisher of Provenance,Author of Provenance)
2. About this file
3. Artists Count (pivot table with number of artworks by artists)
4. Department (pivot table with number of artworks by department)
5. Provenance text contains word "private" (pivot table with filter)
6. Provenance text contains name "Valentin" (pivot table with filter)
7. Provenance text contains the word "probably" (pivot table with filter)

Publisher: OAD

Date of Publication: October 31, 2019


Example of content: Provenance text contains word "private"


Selection of artworks listed on the MoMA Provenance Research Project that contain the word "private" in the provenance text published on the museum website 


https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR2Xl_gm3I8l0uHhxklJW4aZNYwEV5reEa-7JbKdIk93Li0iqtm1OkWBUY_6KkCE3dOwiKFwtnds_jx/pubhtml


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

moma cat from 1965 for historical comparison
http://web.archive.org/web/20200307151118/https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2592_300062333.pdf