Photos and auction catalogs from the 1910s in the Getty Research Institute's provenance research holdings
GRI Director Thomas W. Gaehtgens is joined by Stephanie Barron (senior curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Simon Goodman (author of The Orpheus Clock), and James Welu (director emeritus, Worcester Art Museum) for a conversation discussing provenance research in its many contexts: in museums, as part of an object's documentation or for use in an exhibition; privately, to write and understand one's family history; and, legally, in an effort to establish rightful ownership in the wake of Nazi-era dispossessions and thefts.
This event is organized in collaboration with the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP), 2017-2019.
The German/American Provenance Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019, is a collaboration between seven partner institutions: co-organizers Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz/Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte Munich, and Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste.