Showing posts with label art history authority files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art history authority files. Show all posts

Jun 7, 2018

Top Art Looting Investigation Unit Red List Names (by Frequency)

FOLD3: digitized from the NARA microfilm publication, M1782
https://www.fold3.com/title/631/wwii-oss-art-looting-investigation-reports/description
In 1946 the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit published its Final Report. The Report was accompanied by an Index of Names and a summary of findings called the Red Flag List of Names.

The Red Flag List of Names, while not exhaustive, is extremely interesting for network analysis because of its prosopographical approach, A name could be mentioned more more than a hundred times, with extensive links to others, or only once, with a couple of links.
The document was classified and basically unavailable for many years.

But today, nearly twenty years after the  Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, what is known of these Red Flag names?
How are they reflected in authority files?