UK Spoliation Reports Collections Trust downloadable DATASET CSV

Institution	Artworks in Spoliation Reports from UK Museums, UK Collections Trust 15 April 2020
British Museum	7329
Courtauld Gallery	3133
Fitzwilliam Museum	2415
Ashmolean	1501
Victoria & Albert Museum	559
Tate	524
Glasgow Museums	344
Manchester City Galleries	298
British Library	239
Amgueddfa Cymru	168
National Gallery	165
Whitworth Art Gallery	149
National Galleries of Scotland	131
Southampton City Art Gallery	128
Hull City Museums & Art Gallery	93
York Art Gallery	72
Bowes Museum	62
Bristol Museums & Art Gallery	55
Leicester City Museums	54
National Maritime Museum	47
Northampton Museums	43
Birmingham Museums And Art Gallery	32
Barber Institute of Fine Arts	32
Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery	28
Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums	20
Norfolk Museums Service	11
Museum of London	11
Institution	10
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums	10
National Museums Liverpool	7
National Portrait Gallery	5
National Museums of Scotland	2
Science Museum Group	1
National Trust for Scotland	1
	0
Grand Total	17679

See the Dataset of Provenances for each artwork published by Collections Trust here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQ0HqOLC2dqJvDjASzgIzNAh125Ywz3WhA3YY1wSx-2-Cgk3en9eVNSj3xIzakG4SVZ0fPib4dw6WZQ/pubhtml


Format: CSV

Description: This dataset gathers together in an easy to download CSV file provenance information and questions contained in the Spoliation Reports from UK Museums published by the Collections Trust.  It is intended to facilitate research into Holocaust-era provenance for scholars, art historians and families. 
The original and best source of information concerning provenance remains the Spoliation Reports for each museum on the Collections Trust website.

Download CSV File : 17679  provenances and questions about provenance gaps from the Spoliation Reports of UK Museums in CSV here


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For the most recent information on the Spoliation Reports from UK Museums, please consult the website of  the Collections Trust UK Spoliation Reports for UK Museums

Curt Valentin in provenances at the Harvard Art Museums

- The Persistent Crime of Nazi-Looted Art, by Sophie Gilbert, in The AtlanticLooted Art

The director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Alfred H. Barr Jr. used art dealer Curt Valentin as an intermediary to secretly purchase artworks confiscated by Nazis from German museums. What else did Barr and other American museums directors purchase through Valentin?

In this next series of posts, we will look at the provenances of artworks that mention Curt Valentin. 

An interesting exercise for young art historians and provenances researchers is to examine each provenance with the questions: 

1) Who owned this artwork before Curt Valentin? 

2) Are there provenance gaps for the years 1933-1945?

3) What share of artworks that mention Curt Valentin in the provenance lack information about sellers, dates and places for the Nazi years? (0-25%; 26-50%; 51%-75%; 76%-100%).

4) What possible explanations might there be for the observations in 3)?

5) What actions does this suggest?

1. Mentions of Curt Valentin in the provenances of artworks at the Harvard Art Museums

See  Valentin Harvard Art Museums Provenance



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for more information on Curt Valentin's role in bringing European art into American museums, see:

MoMA’s Problematic Provenances by William D. Cohan published November 17, 2011 by Artnews