Cleveland Museum of Art

The Provenance of Thomas Cole’s “View of Florence”: an unsolved mystery

During my tenure as the provenance researcher at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA), I worked on the provenances of a few paintings that had particularly complex and/or elusive ownership histories.  I researched these provenances fairly continuously over the course of my nearly 3.5 years there, vari...

Posted by Victoria  / on August 11, 2016  / Comments Off on The Provenance of Thomas Cole’s “View of Florence”: an unsolved mystery  / in Art history, Cleveland Museum of Art, Provenance research

My job as the Provenance Researcher at the Cleveland Museum of Art

I recently began a seven-month position as the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Provenance Researcher.   My appointment makes Cleveland one of only a few museums in the United States that have a dedicated provenance researcher—an important step that more museums should be taking in the pursuit of tho...

Posted by Victoria  / on April 19, 2013  / Comments Off on My job as the Provenance Researcher at the Cleveland Museum of Art  / in Autobiographical, Cleveland Museum of Art, Provenance research