Museum of Fine Arts

March 2, 2011

Ardelia Hall

Ardelia Hall (1899-1979) is the quintessential personification of a one-woman campaign to track down looted art and restitute thousands of these missing works to their rightful […]
June 5, 2011

Van Gogh’s 1889 depiction of his mutilated self smoking a pipe–PR 144

In a catalogue of works from the private collection of Mary and Leigh Block of Chicago, IL, the first painting that one sees is an iconic […]
January 11, 2012

The “three graces” of art restitution

“The Graces of the Gardens of the Hesperides”, Rubens, taken by the ERRSource: Holocaust-Era Assets Portal, NARA, RG 111-SC-374665 Although they were not paragons of beauty […]
February 28, 2015

Provenance research: let’s get real

by Marc Masurovsky The din grows ever stronger in conferences, symposia, seminars, blogs, social media, museums, government agencies, whereby provenance research is a necessity, a duty. […]
November 28, 2016

The duty to memory

by Marc Masurovsky Which is simpler—recovery of looted cultural objects or memorializing the loss of cultural objects? The short answer is: both are fraught with complications. […]
May 23, 2018

Contextual analysis

by Marc Masurovsky When looking at an object which is the subject of a claim, one has to know why it is “claimable.” In other words, […]