AAMD - Provenance Workshop

Workshop

5/18/2014 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
University of Washington - Hotel Deca
Seattle, WA
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Description

This workshop will be held in conjunction with AAMG (Association of Academic Museums and Galleries) and will be held as part of AAMG’s annual conference in Seattle on May 18, 2014. The workshop will review best practices for conducting provenance research in art museums, with a focus on Nazi-era provenance as well as some issues pertaining to antiquities and cultural property. The session is geared to all levels of experience and can serve as a how-to and a refresher. The workshop leaders will discuss due diligence and the acquisition process, online research tools, and the handling of restitution claims. The workshop is limited to 50 participants; ample time will be allotted for Q and A.

Victoria Reed, Curator for Provenance, Fine Arts Museum, Boston and Nancy Yeide, Head, Department of Curatorial Records, National Gallery of Art will conduct the half day workshop, which will be held at the Hotel Deca in Seattle Washington. Each participant will receive a copy of Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: the Hermann Goering Collection by Nancy Yeide, which is the first biography to focus on Goering’s personal collection and providing the first opportunity since the war to look at the collection as a whole and evaluate its place within art collecting and politics. This carefully documented volume is critical to the clarification of provenances of the objects featured and brings to light pictures whose histories and whereabouts have been hidden for decades.

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