Daniel Healey, Provenance Researcher, Worcester Art Museum: “Orphaned Antiquities & Cold Case Files: Investigating Provenance in the New Era of Museum Restitution”
The Clarence and Anne Dillon Dunwalke Lecture Provenance refers to an artwork’s history of ownership, from the time of its creation or archaeological discovery to the present. Provenance researchers track down a wide range of sources—scholarship, auction catalogs, financial records, inventories, correspondence, photographs, markings on artworks themselves, and more—to reconstruct an object’s past and retrace […]