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:

• Smith College Museum of Art (172 artworks on NEPIP)

• Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (18 artworks on NEPIP)

• Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (80 artworks on NEPIP)

• 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

How to use information in the provenance texts of Nazi looted art that has been restituted to find other Nazi-looted artworks

This Nazi-looted painting was restituted in 2016. 
https://www.lostart.de/de/Verlust/526702

Often, when a painting is restituted, it is the conclusion of a long and arduous process of archival research to establish the itinerary of the painting and the different actors involved in its looting (or sale, or transfer, or translocation). 

What happens if we take the NAMES that appear in the provenance AFTER an artwork has left the possession of the persecuted Jewish owner and plug them in to some powerful digital tools to check other provenance texts for their presence?

Could this application of digital tools provide clues that lead to other Nazi-looted artworks?

Walter Hugelshofer in provenances (update ongoing)

 In this post, we begin to gather information about Walter Hugelshofer, a Swiss art historian.

(above: Saint Florian at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, 

1. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to selected artworks in US museums

2. Hugelshofer mentioned in relation to auctions

3. Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives

4. Hugelshofer mentioned in association with Julius Böhler archives

Hugelshofer in the Kleinberger archives

 Hugelshofer mentioned in the Kleinberger archives after 1932

(continued from Walter Hugelshofer in provenances)

Records 1-16 of 16

• 1(current)

Heath of a youth in profile

Drawing

1959-05

A. woman looking in a mirror looking left B. id to right

Drawing

1965-03

Juno, Minerva+Venus before the shephard Paris

Drawing

1958-12

A king before the pope

Drawing

1959

David with Head of Goliath

Drawing

Landscape with card players

Painting

1960-06

Oval Portrait of a Man

Painting

Adoration

Painting

1947-12

Landscape by Moonliht

Painting

1954-06

Vanitas

Painting

1968

Martyrdom of Cosme and Damien

Painting

1958-05

Ships under repair

Painting

1958-05

Preparation for Sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham on Mt Moriah (Genesis XXII 2-3)

Painting

1968-04

Noli me tangere

Painting

1955-12-10

Apollo & Daphne

Painting

1959-05

Triumph of Eternity

Painting

1953-07

search url: https://cdm16028.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/searchterm/kleinberger%20galleries%20records!Hugelshofer!1933-99999999/field/relatig!all!date/mode/exact!all!exact/conn/and!and!and

The Met: Watson Library Digital Collections

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I'm wondering about the #mapping of #stories and the different versions that are told over time by different people in different places.

My own focus is the stories that are told about the #itineraries of #artworks, called #provenance.

But when I look at this #map of #iceberg #movement from Peter T Fretwell, I'm inspired about #dataviz possibilities for alternative histories of artworks (of which only one is true, the others false)

#30DayMapChallenge

 https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109397742358396244

 

The #map function on #Digital #Benin is brilliant.

https://twitter.com/OpenLinkArtData/status/1595301214354571264

Can switch from #historical #landmarks of Benin Kingdom to the #museums in possession today.
Then #drill down for details and #datasets, with #provenance #links

Wonderful #dataviz #design.

https://digitalbenin.org/map

Could one go further and show #movement ?

#30DayMapChallenge

https://mastodon.art/@openartdata/109392975167318554