Dear Colleagues,
I thought this information would be of considerable interest to the ARLIS/NA membership. Nancy Yeide spoke on this topic at the 2000 annual conference in Pittsburgh ("Lost and Found: The Problem of Provenance").
Please direct all inquiries to the publishers at the numbers indicated below.
Roger Lawson
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<<The AAM Guide to Provenance Research>>, by Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha and Amy L. Walsh.
An authoritative resource for tracing the ownership history of artwork, with particular attention to art and cultural property looted by the Nazis and others during World War II, was published at the annual meeting of the American Association of Museums, held in St. Louis May 6-10. The guide is divided into three parts: Basic Provenance Research and Principles, Holocaust Era Provenance Research, and Appendices. The guide includes information on documentation available at the United States National Archives as well as foreign resources for provenance research. The extensive appendices include bibliographies of collectors, locations of dealer archives, annotated lists of "red-flag" names, and a list of the codes used by Nazis to identify confiscated collections.
The guide is available for $40 to AAM members ($50 nonmembers) and can be purchased on line at www.aam-us.org, or by contacting the AAM bookstore at 202-289-9127 or [log in to unmask]
<<National Archives and Records Administration Microfilm Project:
Art Records Relating to Holocaust-Era Art Provenance and Claims Research>>
For the first time, researchers wanting to see reports from the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) of the Office of Strategic Services will not have to travel to the National Archives at College Park to examine the original paper documents. The National Archives announced that it will release a microfilm publication consisting of reports of art looting and trafficking of looted art by the Nazis in World War II on Tuesday, May 8. The publication entitled, "OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Reports, 1945-46," consists of detailed interrogation reports, consolidated interrogation reports, and the final report of the ALIU.
The microfilm publication, (M1782), is available for research use in the microfilm research rooms at the National Archives Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, at the National Archives at College Park, and at the 13 National Archives regional facilities, located in major urban areas nationwide.
The publication may be purchased through the National Archives Customer Service Center in College Park, MD. Credit card orders may be placed by calling 1-800-234-8861 (or 301-713-6800 in the Washington, DC metropolitan area) or by mailing or faxing (to 301-713-6169) an order form to the Customer Service Center. Orders paid for by check or money order should be sent to the National Archives Trust Fund in Atlanta, GA.
More information about the Microfilm Project is available at http://www.nara.gov/research/assets/
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