Alsdorf in provenances of artworks in the Chicago Art Institute

James and Marilynn Alsdorf contributed many valuable artworks to the Art Institute of Chicago.

The table below shows provenance texts as published on AIC's website in August 2024. 

Provenance gaps of over a thousand years are not uncommon.

Phoenix Ancient Art: selected provenances

detail of Marble female figure Cycladicca. 3200–2700 BC (on loan to the Met)

 Phoenix Ancient Art has been in the news quite a bit lately, and art crime experts are advising museums to verify their collections.

DATASET: Latchford Wiener Hecht Sperling Klejman in provenances at Metropolitan Museum of Art

FLASH: 26 Doris Wiener provenances added 17SEP2023!

September 2, 2023

DATASET Metropolitan Museum of Art artworks with links to Douglas Latchford, Doris Wiener, Robert Hecht, Harry Sperling, John Klejman, Klaus G. Perls, Joseph Brummer 

Dataset name: Selection Latchford plus Metmuseum 2022

Description: This enhanced Provenance dataset has been constructed from information available on the public internet site of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes the provenance and credit line information for artworks which mention Douglas Latchford, Doris Wiener, Robert Hecht, Harry Sperling, John Klejman, Klaus G. Perls, Joseph Brummer and others.  It is intended to facilitate research into antiquities provenance for scholars, art historians and investigators. 

Format: Google Sheet

URL: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTO8W-KpmI91d_l-l4LAoyp_alzQAPaIFAhug2YbStfvUeWMWqjmeAVtO-E4vA7PrOrzjza7b26s6DH/pubhtml?gid=995287093&single=true

Download: CSV

Contents:

• Selection
• Source
• RetrievalDate
• YEAR Acquired
• Source Url
• Title Date
• Artist
• Credit Line
• Acc Num
• Provenance (as published by the Metropolitan Museum on its website on March 29, 2022)
• Description
• Artist_Region
• Artwork__tombstone Value

Publisher of Dataset: OAD

Date of Publication: September 2, 2023