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Cleveland Museum of Art - http://www.clemusart.com/research/provenance.aspx
Provenence research project guidelines. Includes a list and photos of paintings that either have gaps in their provenance or that were known to have been confiscated by the Nazis.

Getty Museum - http://www.getty.edu/museum/research/provenance/
Provenance of works in the Getty's collections, from the rise to power of the Nazi party to its defeat. Includes links to Holocaust-era art issues.

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hood/provenanceresear.html
Searchable online database of provenance research.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - http://www.lacma.org/art/ProvIntro.aspx
Report on LACMA's research on the provenance of paintings in its departments of Modern and Contemporary Art and European Paintings and Sculpture.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - http://www.mfa.org/research/
Results of research undertaken by the MFA on the history of ownership of its collection of European paintings.

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. - http://www.nga.gov/collection/provfeat.htm
World War II provenance research. Photos and history for eleven paintings in the collection that were looted during the war.

National Gallery of Canada Provenance Research - http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/enthusiast/provenance/index_e.jsp
Lists European paintings with incomplete or not fully documented provenances for the period 1933-1945.

National Museums in the United Kingdom - http://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/spoliation/spoliation.html
Progress report on provenance research for the period 1933-1945.

Seattle Art Museum - http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/collection/HolocaustProvenance.asp
Lists works of art in the European collection that have gaps in their provenance during the Nazi era (1933 - 1945).

The American Association of Museums - http://www.aam-us.org/museumresources/prov/index.cfm
Contains guidelines for American museums concerning the unlawful appropriation of objects during the Nazi era.

The Art Institute of Chicago - http://www.artic.edu/aic/provenance/index.html
Painting and sculpture provenance report.

The Detroit Institute of Arts - http://www.dia.org/the_collection/provenance_information/
List of all the paintings that entered the collection from 1932 to the present day, for which there are gaps in the provenance during the period 1932-1946.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/provenance_a-f.htm
Lists 338 European paintings with incomplete provenance for the World War II era.

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