Showing posts with label SCMA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCMA. Show all posts

Dec 12, 2022

Provenance at American university art museums

 Morning on the Seine, Giverny (Matinée sur la Seine)
MONET AC 1966.48
(no provenance)
 https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+1966.48


 Part of the series on museum websites, provenance and transparency:

this post looks at the availability of provenance information on artworks at:





  • University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst

  • Historic Deerfield and the Hampshire College Art Gallery


DATABASE search https://museums.fivecolleges.edu

Explore the museum's full collection through the Five College Collections Database, which combines SCMA’s holdings with the collections of the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Historic Deerfield and the Hampshire College Art Gallery.


Provenance Evaluation: POOR

This evaluation was conducted by live tests on December 5, 2022. Please address corrections or any new information to OAD.


The museums appear to publish Credit Line but not provenance