Why does the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) not publish the provenance it has?

Crucifixion, Miguel Alcanyís c. 1425 Accession Number 64.11.14 (provenance gap of 539 years?)

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Back when the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal still existed, The CMOA published a list of artworks that it considered had Nazi-era provenance gaps.

Then, in 2015, the CMOA received a $350,000 grant for digital provenance research, in which it made great and innovative progress, sharing methods and results, in a project called ArtTracks.

(see: NEH awards grant to Carnegie Museum of Art for digital provenance project)

But if you look at the CMOA's public website today, you will find no provenance - not even for the NEPIP items that had provenance back in 2015. 

In the intervening years the format of the CMOA urls have changed twice, making it difficult to connect the original 2015 provenance file to the current online records. 

To facilitate this connection, below is the DATASET of selected CMOA artworks with provenance from 2015, but with the urls updated to link to the current website.

DATASET CMOA with NEW URLS

View dataset on Public Google Sheets

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRpLav1UHYn23pbJ9zJ3olU-M8tOfvbvk-l0TQ3PC9hBz9ByoqeiAkh5myRBAoDtshy9VUft3oR7RvK/pubhtml?gid=1448755274&single=true

Download CSV file

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRpLav1UHYn23pbJ9zJ3olU-M8tOfvbvk-l0TQ3PC9hBz9ByoqeiAkh5myRBAoDtshy9VUft3oR7RvK/pub?gid=1448755274&single=true&output=csv

DATASET: Carnegie Museum of Art merged with Github provenances

DATASET: Provenance information gathered from the 2015 CMOA Github merged with information from the Carnegie Museum of Art online collections website

Description: This dataset contains publicly available information originally published online by the Carnegie Museum of Art which has been formatted by OAD as a CSV file for easy download and analysis with digital tools. Many of the artworks in the list also appear on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP). For more recent updates or additional information concerning the artworks, please contact the Carnegie Museum of Art.

The CMOA collections dataset was published on Github by the Carnegie Museum of Art under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 licence (no copyright). 

It has been enhanced with a NEW URL field in order to link to the CMOA museum website.

Date data retrieved: August 2021

AOD Version: 1.0

Format: CSV                           Click to DOWNLOAD CSV

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQwCWFQ13AB3EFsfXN84BxCMoWZ1keAT8-vxyTTlvEwZLQDuRqsxa5Ebrh0OdVOQfy79VdiB30Om6cm/pub?gid=1728520750&single=true&output=csv