Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Accession 22-102
Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative
Director's Records, 1953-1954, 1985-1986, 1988, 2000-2019
Collection Overview
| General Information About This Collection | |
|---|---|
| Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
| Creator: | Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative |
| Title: | Director's Records |
| Dates: | 1953-1954, 1985-1986, 1988, 2000-2019 |
| Quantity: | 13.15 cu. ft. (13 record storage boxes) (1 oversize folder) |
| Collection: | Accession 22-102 |
| Language of Materials: | English |
| Summary: | This accession consists of the records of Jane Milosch, primarily documenting her activities as director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative (SPRI) in the Office of the Under Secretary for Museums, Education, and Research/Provost. Milosch oversaw World War II-era provenance research on works of art; facilitated provenance research at Smithsonian museums and archives to clarify ownership history and unlawful appropriations; and participated in Germany's International Schwabing Art Trove Task Force Advisory Group, as well as the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program. Some earlier records document Milosch's activities as Senior Program Officer for Art (2008-2009), in which she directed pan-Institutional art programs in the Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture; and, prior to 2008, when she was curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; meeting agendas; budget summaries; SPRI website planning and development information; contracts and agreements; proposals; reports; press releases; information regarding conferences, symposia, workshops, committees, strategic planning, grants, fundraising, and exhibition planning; guidelines; newsletters; newspaper clippings; brochures; and posters. Some materials are in electronic format. |
Descriptive Entry
This accession consists of the records of Jane Milosch, primarily documenting her activities as director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative (SPRI) in the Office of the Under Secretary for Museums, Education, and Research/Provost. Milosch oversaw World War II-era provenance research on works of art; facilitated provenance research at Smithsonian museums and archives to clarify ownership history and unlawful appropriations; and participated in Germany's International Schwabing Art Trove Task Force Advisory Group, as well as the German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program. Some earlier records document Milosch's activities as Senior Program Officer for Art (2008-2009), in which she directed pan-Institutional art programs in the Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture; and, prior to 2008, when she was curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, and notes; meeting agendas; budget summaries; SPRI website planning and development information; contracts and agreements; proposals; reports; press releases; information regarding conferences, symposia, workshops, committees, strategic planning, grants, fundraising, and exhibition planning; guidelines; newsletters; newspaper clippings; brochures; and posters. Some materials are in electronic format.
Restrictions
Use RestrictionRestricted for 15 years, until Jan-01-2035; Transferring office; 6/29/2022 memorandum, Johnstone to Carroll; Contact reference staff for details.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program
- International Schwabing Art Trove Task Force Advisory Group
- Milosch, Jane
- Renwick Gallery
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary for Museums, Education, and Research/Provost
Subject
- Art -- Provenance
- Art museum curators
- Art museums
- Budget
- Committees
- Congresses and conventions
- Contracts
- Fund raising
- International cooperation
- Meetings
- Museum exhibits
- Museums -- Public relations
- Professional associations
- Research grants
- Strategic planning
- Web sites
- Workshops
- World War, 1939-1945
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 22-102, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Director's Records
Container List
Box 1
Provenance Website, 2009
Provenance Website Plans, 2002-2005 (2 folders) (includes electronic records)
Provenance Research, 2002-2009 (2 folders)
Provenance Articles, 1985, 2003-2005 (2 folders)
Nazi-Era Provenance Research Seminar, American Association of Museums (AAM), 2001
National Regulations Concerning the Export of Cultural Property, 1988
Guidelines and Procedures for World War Two Provenance Issues, 2009
Holocaust Era Assets Conference (Prague, Czech Republic), 2009
Association for Research into Crimes Against Art (ARCA) Conference on the Study of Art Crime, 2010, 2012
American Forum of Asian Art Curators, 2009-2010
A New Era of Collaboration and Digitization Resources: World War II Provenance Research Seminar, 2011 (2 folders)
Box 2
Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative (SPRI): Budget Summaries, 2011
German Provenance Contacts, 2009
PowerPoint Presentations, 2011
Works of Art of Greek Provenance, 2011
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 2011
Museum of Modern Art, 2011
American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, 2016 (2 folders)
College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, 2016
World War II-era to Contemporary Cultural Property Consortia, 2010-2011
Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art Symposium, 2013
International Council of Museums (ICOM) Symposium (The Hague, Netherlands), 2012
ARCA Conference Presentation, circa 2009
On-Going Projects and Accomplishments, 2009-2010
Workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, 2013
Marc Masurovsky, 2010-2012
Jane Milosch: Correspondence, 2009-2017
International Society of Appraisers Conference (Tempe, Arizona), 2012
Hertling Fake German Antique Jewelry Case: Correspondence, 2007-2010
Hertling Fake German Antique Jewelry Case: Customs, 2010
Hertling Fake German Antique Jewelry Case: Research, 1953-1954, 1985-1986, 2007-2011 (2 folders)
German Cultural Minister and Delegation Meeting, 2016
Smithsonian Women's Committee Grant, 2016-2017
International Research Forum's Collecting and Provenance Conference (Jerusalem, Israel), 2016
Provenance Research Handbook, 2016
Provenance Roundtable, Harvard Art Museums, 2016
Asian Art Provenance Connections Project, 2016
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Meeting, 2016
American Council of Learned Societies: Public Fellows Program, 2014-2015
American Council of Learned Societies: Public Fellows Program, 2015-2016 (2 folders)
Collections Provenance Research Project: Hans Syz Collection, National Museum of American History, 2010-2013 (2 folders)
Box 3
Collections Provenance Research Project: Alfred Flechtheim, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2012-2013 (2 folders)
Collections Provenance Research Project: Archives of American Art (AAA), 2009-2013
Collections Provenance Research Project: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum (CHNDM), 2010-2011 (4 folders)
Collections Provenance Research Project: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA), 2008
Authentication in Art Congress (The Hague, Netherlands), 2014
Contemporary Curators Forum, 2008-2009
Smithsonian 2.0 Conference, 2008 (2 folders)
Provenance Press Releases, 2008-2013
Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, 2010, 2018
SPRI Logic Model Worksheet
SPRI Annual Report, 2013-2014
Box 4
Nazi-Era Provenance Workshop, 2013-2014 (2 folders)
Provenance Website Redesign, 2018
Covered Object Database, 2017
The David Berg Foundation Grant, 2013, 2016
Smithsonian Women's Committee Grant, 2017-2019
ICE Programs and Workshops, 2010-2014
Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, 2010
Bonnie W. Goldblatt, 2010
Review of the Smithsonian's World War II-Era Provenance Research Project, 2009
Proposal to Initiate a Center for Provenance Research at the Smithsonian, 2010
Smithsonian Grand Challenges Awards, 2010
Juan Gris Research, 2012
Smithsonian Consortia (general), 2012-2013
Gale Cengage Learning Company, 2013
Ruth Robbins, 2013
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD): Antiques Collecting, 2013
Provenance Research: Traditions and Methodologies (Laurie A. Stein), 2014
Holocaust Art Restitution Project, 2013
Robert M. Edsel, 2010-2011
Looted Art: A Look at American Museums after the Holocaust, 2013
The Frick Collection Symposium, 2011-2012
Program on Preventing Illicit Trafficking in Antiquities and Other Cultural Property, 2009
Sotheby's Restitution Symposium, 2010
FSGA World War II-Era Provenance Project, 2009-2011
Provenance and Bibliography Meeting, 2011
The Getty Research Institute, 2012-2013
Lynn H. Nicholas, 2009-2012
German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP), 2014-2017
Provenance Planning Meetings and Panel Session Ideas for CAA and AAM Annual Meetings, 2015
Collective Imagination, 2015-2016
Digital Provenance Symposium, 2016-2017
External Review Committee, 2007
Second German/American Provenance Research Roundtable, 2017
SPRI Strategic Planning Meeting, 2016
Meetings and Projects (general), 2009-2018
Johanna Best, First Annual Report, 2017
Taylor and Francis Contributor Agreements, 2017
Art Transition, 2008
Richard Kurin, 2008-2014, 2019
Smithsonian Consortia Grants, 2008-2011
Smithsonian Center for Provenance Research (SCPR): Proposals, 2009
SCPR: Project Chronology, 2009-2010
Provenance Meeting Agendas and Notes, 2010
Status Report on the Smithsonian's Provenance in World War II Era, 2010
SCPR Working Committee Meeting, 2011
SPRI Provenance Research Specialist, 2016
Digital Curation Innovation Center Symposium, 2016
SPRI/PREP Donations, 2017-2019
Box 5
SPRI Staff Meetings, 2017-2018
German Lost Art Foundation Conference, 2018
Smithsonian Directors Provenance Circle Meeting, 2017
Association of Art Museum Curators Provenance Webinar Series, 2018
Preservation of Art and Culture in Times of War, 2017
SPRI Reports, 2009-2017 (2 folders)
SPRI Closed, 2018
Preservation of Ukraine's Cultural Heritage Seminar, 2010
World Bank Group, 2010
Provenance Website, 2008-2012
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts), 2009
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010-2011
World Culture Idea Fair, 2010
United States Department of State (DOS) Art Restitution Meetings, 2009-2011 (includes electronic records)
John Becker, 2009-2011
Prague Holocaust Era Assets Conference, 2009
Cultural Heritage (general), 2009-2010
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), 2010
The Smithsonian Associates, 2010
New Zealand, 2011-2012
FSGA Projects, 2011-2012
SPRI Plans and Budget, 2010-2011
International Foundation for Art Research, 2013
LootedArt.com, 2012
Holocaust Claims Processing Office, 2009-2010
Provenance Related Conferences, 2010-2012
United States National Archives World War II Provenance Research Seminar, 2010-2011
Thomas R. Kline, 2010-2011
Johns Hopkins University, 2009, 2011
World War II Provenance Articles, 2011-2012
National Conference on Cultural Property Protection, 2012
DePaul University Restitution and Repatriation Symposium, 2012
Conference on the United States and the 1954 Hague Convention, 2009
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2011
AAM and the Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal, 2008-2010
FSGA World War II Era Provenance Research Conference, 2011 (2 folders)
FSGA Provenance Project, 2006-2007 (includes electronic records)
Box 6
German/American Exchange for World War II-Era Provenance Research Planning Meeting (Munich, Germany), 2010
Austria and Germany Provenance Research and Meetings, 2011
Provenance Research in Munich, 2009
Christian Fuhrmeister, 2010-2011
German Historical Institute, Paris, 2010
Berlin Applied Arts Museum, 2009
Collecting Art and Dealing in Art Symposium (Vienna, Austria), 2011
Smithsonian Photography Initiative Planning Meeting, 2008
Collections Management, 2001-2008
Exhibition Review Committee, 2009-2012
Applied Art from Wales, 2008
AAA, 2000, 2007-2008
CHNDM (general), 2008-2009
CHNDM Bylaws, 2008-2009
Nunda Ambegaonkar, 2009
FSGA (general), 2008 (2 folders)
National Portrait Gallery, 2008
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2007-2008
Cultural History Program Seminars, 2008
Larry Wohlers, 2009-2010
Lee Perez, 2011
The International Center, 2010
The Aspen Institute, 2010-2011
Legal Issues in Museum Administration, 2009, 2011 (includes electronic records)
Office of General Counsel (OGC): Rejected Uniform Law Study on Stolen Art, 2011
Smithsonian Acquisitions Policy, 2008-2010
AAMD Guidelines and Policies, 2009-2010
National Gallery of Art, 2009-2010
Sita Reddy, CFCH, 2010
Cultural Policy Program Proposal with American University, 2009
Irene J. Winter, Harvard University, 2010
Box 7
OGC: Immunity from Seizure Laws, 2012
Kress Foundation, 2011
Stuart E. Eizenstat, 2010
George Washington University, 2012
SCPR Funding Ideas, 2010-2012
ICOM Publication, 2015-2016
Rowan and Littlefield Publishing Group Agreement, 2018
Douglas Davidson, 2011
Elizabeth Duggal, 2013
Martin Sullivan, 2010, 2012
Provenance Team Meetings, 2008-2013
"The West versus the East or the United Europe" Conference (Podebrady, Czech Republic), 2013
"From Plunder to Preservation" Conference (Washington, D.C.), 2012
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure Workshop, 2014-2015
Columbia University: "Ghosts of the Past: Nazi-Looted Art and Its Legacies" Conference, 2014-2015
American University International Law Review Symposium, 2015
Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung (Bremen, Germany), 2014
"Looted-Recovered: Cultural Goods, The Case of Poland" Conference (Krakow, Poland), 2014
Conference and Research Trip to Germany, 2013
European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), 2015
Provenance Research and Contemporary American Craft Lecture Tour (Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney, Australia), 2014-2015
Art Institute of Chicago Project, 2011-2012
Roundtable for Provenance Research, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2011
Roundtable for Provenance Research, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, AAA, 2013
Roundtable for Provenance Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013
Roundtable for Provenance Research, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2014
Roundtable for Provenance Research, 2014
Conferences and Symposiums (general), 2010-2013 (2 folders)
Box 8
DOS/ESLI Provenance Research Training Program, 2012-2014
SPRI (general), 2010-2013 (2 folders)
Smithsonian Institution-University of Glasgow Partnership, 2014-2018 (3 folders) (includes electronic records)
Gurlitt Task Force: Contracts, 2014-2015
Gurlitt Task Force: Organizational Charts, 2014-2015
Gurlitt Task Force: Meetings, 2014-2015
Gurlitt Task Force: Reports, 2013-2015 (3 folders)
Gurlitt Task Force: Website Development, 2015
Gurlitt Task Force: Press Releases, 2013-2016 (3 folders)
Box 9
Gurlitt Task Force: Press Releases, 2013-2016
Gurlitt Task Force: Correspondence, 2013
Gurlitt Task Force: Correspondence, 2014 (2 folders)
Gurlitt Task Force: Correspondence, 2015 (5 folders)
Gurlitt Task Force: Correspondence, 2016
Gurlitt Task Force: Object Record Project, 2015 (5 folders)
Box 10
Gurlitt Task Force: Object Record Project, 2015 (5 folders)
Gurlitt Task Force: Research and Notes, 2013-2016 (4 folders) (includes electronic records)
PREP: Grant Planning, 2015-2016
PREP: European Recovery Program (ERP) Grant, 2013-2018 (3 folders)
PREP: First Exchange Program Meeting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015-2017 (3 folders) (includes electronic records)
Box 11
PREP: News Releases, 2016-2017
PREP: Meetings, 2019
PREP: Program Activities (general), 2012-2019 (9 folders)
PREP: First Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (New York City, New York), 2017
PREP: Second Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (Berlin, Germany), 2017
PREP: Third Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (Los Angeles, California), 2018
PREP: Fourth Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (Munich, Germany), 2018
PREP: Fifth Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (Dresden, Germany), 2019
PREP: Sixth Exchange Program Meeting Booklet (Washington, D.C.), 2019
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Final Report, 2010
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Proposals, 2009
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Programs, 2010
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Meetings, 2010
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Press Releases, 2009-2011 (includes electronic records)
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Embassy of Australia, 2010-2011
Box 12
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Quicksilver Foundation, 2009
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Exhibition Planning, 2009-2010 (2 folders)
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Publications, 2007, 2011
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Putnam Museum, 2010-2011
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project: Correspondence, 2009-2011
Smithsonian Art and Science Center, 2010
Smithsonian Art and Science Initiatives, 2009-2010 (2 folders) (includes electronic records)
Art at the National Museum of Natural History, 2008-2009
Smithsonian-Moorea Art Project, 2009-2010
D.C. Art Science Rendezvous, 2010-2011
Smithsonian Arts Planning Meeting, 2006, 2009
Sustainability in the Arts, 2009-2012
Second Arts Planning Meeting, 2008-2009
Norman Foster Book Project, 2007-2008
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Review Committee, 2013-2016
Arts, Military and Healing Project, 2011-2012 (3 folders)
Box 13
Arts, Military and Healing Project, 2011-2012 (3 folders)
Veterans History Project, 2012
Lecture at the University of Iowa, 2004
Fundraising for the exhibition "Lino Tagliapiera in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass," 2007-2008
Ambassador Giovanni Castellaneta, 2008
Judy Huret, 2007-2008
Cecilia Chung, 2008
Michelle Foster, 2008
Kirsten Peterson Johansen, 2008
Caterina Tognon, 2007
Kay Sekimachi, 2008
Barbara Waldman, 2008
James Renwick Alliance, 2004, 2007
Robert Briscol (includes electronic records)
White House Historical Association, 2008
Stanley Resor, 2012
Rockwell Collins, 2012
Dorothy Saxe, 2008
Teri Van Dorston, 2010
Bret Price, 2010
Paul Parkman, 2008-2015
Wendy Luke, 2009
Michael Monroe, 2008
Susan Longini, 2008
Mary Merkel-Hess, 2014
Nion McEvoy, 2008
Maloof Studio-Home and Center, 2010
Robert P. Kogod, 2008-2009, 2015
Nanette Laitman, 2008, 2012
The Karma Foundation, 2008
Jerry Kaplan, 2008
Lois Jecklin, 2008-2015
Windgate Charitable Trust, 2012
Olga Hirshhorn, 2008-2009
Francoise Grossen, 2012-2013
Dianne Komminski, 2012
Bresler and Reiner, Inc., 2010-2011
Craft Emergency Relief Fund, 2009
Lois Boardman, 2008-2011
David and Roberta Williamson, 2008
Candy Wong, 2008
Diane Zack, 2008
Dana Gioia, 2008-2009
David Furchgott, 2009
Mel Eagle, 2015
Kathleen M. Eldon, 2008-2010
Renwick Craft Invitational, 2005, 2008-2009
Mark Newport, 2011
Sun Koo Yuh, 2008
Beth Cavener Stichter, 2008
Beth Lipman, 2008, 2012
Steven Montgomery, 2014, 2016
Christyl Boger, 2010 (includes electronic records)
Mark Newport, 2009-2010
Patty Stonesifer, 2009
James F. Dicke II, 2009-2014
"The Will to Adorn" Research and Presentation Initiative, 2008-2012
The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, 2009-2011
"Crafting a Nation" Conference, 2010
Correspondence (general), 2009-2010
Sixth PREP Exchange on Nazi-Era Art Provenance Research, 2019
SPRI Poster, circa 2017-2019
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