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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Interested readers of this list in the NY Metropolitan region are invited to attend the following demonstration: *********************************************************************** "Documents for the History of Collecting" The Provenance Index of the Getty Provenance Documentation Collaborative Demonstration of the CD-ROM Thursday, May 16, 1996, at 11:00 a.m. at the Frick Art Reference Library, 10 East 71st Street, New York The demo is free. Please call Inge Reist at the library to RSVP (212 288-8700, extension 431) As a member of the Getty Provenance Documentation Collaborative, the Frick Art Reference Library is pleased to welcome Burton Fredericksen, Director of the Collaborative, to present a demonstration of the use an myriad potential research applications of the databases produced by the Collaborative. The Provenance Index began in 1974 at the J. Paul Getty Museum as an index to paintings listed in British nineteenth-century sales catalogs and to the provenance of paintings in American and British museums. As part of the Getty Art History Information Program, the index grew to encompass databases including documentation on paintings in additional countries. The Collaborative now consists of 16 participating institutions in the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Russia. *<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>* posted by: Deborah Kempe Chief, Collections Management and Access Frick Art Reference Library 10 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021-4967 ph: 212 288-8700,x483 fax: 212 879-2091 email: [log in to unmask] *<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*<*>*