The Art of Provenance Research: Art Detectives in Conversation

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Join Victoria Reed, senior curator for provenance at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Johns Hopkins faculty member Stephanie Brown for a chat about art history mysteries.

Victoria Reed trained as a Renaissance art historian and has been conducting provenance research in art museums for over 20 years. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, she oversees provenance research and documentation, responds to ownership claims, and coordinates and implements due diligence policies and practices for the curatorial division. Reed's scholarly interests include the collecting histories of stolen artwork (particularly looted art that came to America after World War II), the development of museum ethics in the U.S., and the iconography of decapitation in medieval and early modern Europe.

Stephanie Brown is assistant director and senior lecturer in the Johns Hopkins MA in Museum Studies program. She is the author of The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin: A Study of Authenticity and the Art Market (Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury, 2024).

Co-hosted with the Johns Hopkins MA in Cultural Heritage Management program.