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Allied forces: libraries and museums collaborating on World War II provenance research*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jacklyn Young
Jacklyn Young*
Affiliation:
Queensland Art Gallery, Research Library, PO Box 3686, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
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Abstract

In recent years museums and galleries have come under scrutiny following claims that artworks confiscated or looted during the Second World War, and still unaccounted for, have made their way into public collections. In response, many such institutions worldwide have been endeavouring to reaffirm the integrity of their collections. The Queensland Art Gallery has established a Provenance Research Team to complete its records for artworks of European origin which have missing provenance details during the period 1933-1945. This paper highlights the role the Gallery Library is taking in supporting the project.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , 2004 , pp. 33 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2004

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Footnotes

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Presented as a paper at the ARLIS/ANZ Conference in Auckland on 27 April 2002.

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