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Research – Provenance Research Project
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Resources
The following is a selection of the ever growing number of websites and books relating to the topic of provenance research and, more specifically, art loot. Additional websites can be found by searching the Internet using keywords such as ‘provenance research', ‘art loot', ‘Nazis' and combinations of these.
Museum Guidelines, Reports and Declarations
American Association of Museums‹Guidelines Concerning the Unlawful Appropriation of Objects during the Nazi Era [1999] http://www.aam-us.org/nazi_guidelines.htm
Association of Art Museum Directors [USA]‹Report of the AAMD Task Force on the Spoliation of Art during the Nazi/World War II Era (1933–45) [1998 http://www.aamd.org/guideln.shtml
National Museum Directors¹ Conference [UK http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/spoliation/
ICOM Recommendations Concerning the Return of Works of Art Belonging to Jewish Owners [1999]
http://www.icom.org/worldwar2.html
Plunder and Restitution: Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States [2001] http://pcha.ushmm.org/PlunderRestitution.html/html/Home_Contents.html
Final Report‹Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States http://www.holocaustassets.gov/
Spoliation of Works of Art During the Holocaust and World War II Period http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/spoliation/spoliation.html
Progress Report on UK Museums' Provenance Research for the Period 1933–1945 [2000]
Vilnius International Forum on Holocaust Era Looted Cultural Assets [2000] http://www.vilniusforum.lt/docs/declaration.htm
Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art [1998] http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/981203_heac_art_princ.html
Other Resources
Art Institute of Chicago‹Selected Titles on European Art Loss and Restitution http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/provenance.html
Bruno Kreisky Archives Foundation http://www.kreisky.org/
The Documentation Project (Cultural Property Research Foundation) http://docproj.loyola.edu/
Hotel Drouot Auction Records http://www.drouot-documentation.com/Drouotdoc/accueil/
Institute of Art and Law http://www.ial.uk.com
Sources for World War II Era Provenance Research at the Frick Art Reference Library: Bibliography http://www.frick.org/html/provenancebib.htm
J.Paul Getty Research Institute http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/
Lost Art Internet Database [Germany] http://www.lostart.de/
Catalogue‹Musées Nationaux - Récupération http://www.culture.fr/documentation/mnr/pres.htm
National Archives and Records Administration [USA] http://www.nara.gov/research/assets/
National Gallery of Art, Washington http://www.nga.gov/resources/ww2res.htm
National Portrait Gallery, London http:www//npg.org.uk/live/index.asp
Saur World Biographical Indices Online http://www.saur.de/
Schloss Collection http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/archives/dossiers/schloss/index.html
Tate Gallery http://www.tate.org.uk
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum http://www.ushmm.org/
Press Coverage
The Art Newspaper http://www.theartnewspaper.com/looted/lootedart.asp
Museum Pages http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/
Art Gallery of New South Wales http://info.ago.net/collection/
Art Gallery of Ontario http://www.artic.edu/aic/provenance/index.html
Art Institute of Chicago http://www.clemusart.com/provintro.htm
Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/research/provenance/index.html
Harvard University Art Museums http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/research/provenance/index.html
J. Paul Getty Museum http://www.getty.edu/art/provenance/index.html
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi http://www.lrma.org/provenance.html
Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/lacma.asp
Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/provenance_a-f.htm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://www.mbam.qc.ca/provenance/a-index.html
Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.moma.org/menu/provenance.html
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.mfa.org/research/
National Gallery of Art, London http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/collection/restitution.htm
National Gallery of Art, Washington http://www.nga.gov/collection/srchprov.htm
National Gallery of Canada http://www.national.gallery.ca/provenance/index_e.html
National Gallery of Victoria http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/provenance/index.html
Seattle Art Museum http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/collection/default.htm
Tracing Agencies
The Art Loss Register http://www.artloss.com/
Commission for Art Recovery http://www.comartrecovery.org/
Holocaust Art Restitution Project http://www.lostart.org/
Holocaust Claims Processing Office, New York State Banking Department http://www.claims.state.ny.us/
Selected Bibliography
Feliciano, Hector. The Lost Museum‹The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World¹s Greatest Works of Art. Basic Books, New York, 1997.
Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa‹The Fate of Europe¹s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1994.
Palmer, Norman. Museums and the Holocaust: Law, Principles and Practice. Institute of Art and Law, Leicester, 2000.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. The Faustian Bargain‹The Art World in Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000.
Simpson, Elizabeth (ed.). The Spoils of War‹World War II and its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance, and Recovery of Cultural Property. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1997.
Yeide, Nancy H. [et. al]. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research. American Association of Museums, Washington, 2001.
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