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This institution also provides a list of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933-1945.
GLASGOW MUSEUMS
Art Gallery & Museum
Kelvingrove
Glasgow
G3 8AG
(museum currently closed for refurbishment)
The Burrell Collection
2060 Pollokshaws Road
Glasgow
G43 1AT
CONTACT
Vivien Hamilton
Tel: 0141 276 9332
E-mail: vivien.hamilton@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
Mark O'Neill, Head of Museums and Galleries
Tel: 0141 287 0446
E-mail: mark.o'neill@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COLLECTION
- Paintings, drawings and prints from Europe 14th-20th centuries
- Sculpture
- Antiquities and archaeological materials from throughout the classical world
- Art and archaeology from South and East Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas
- European decorative art, ceramics, glass, metalwork, textiles and furniture.
1. OVERALL PLANS
PARTS OF COLLECTION EXCLUDED
In general we are excluding items acquired before 1933 and created after 1945; collections with British provenance or from British archaeological or natural history sources, as well as items acquired directly from archaeological sites or commissioned works. Works by British artists and those sold by British dealers and auction houses are evaluated to ensure that they were not affected by sale or trade in Europe since 1933. We are explicitly excluding items considered to be valued at less than £200 each.
INITIAL FOCUS FOR RESEARCH
The introductory investigation of the provenance of the objects in the
collection covered all paintings, drawings and watercolours. The
investigation did not cover the print collection and, for reasons of
priority, did not include British art as it is unlikely that these works would have left the country in the period 1933-45.
In the Burrell Collection, the initial investigation gave priority to the
paintings and works on paper (some 700 works in total).
Work is continuing into the provenance of the stained glass and
will be published in a future update. The tapestry list is now available. Further studies will investigate other areas of the Collection and these too will be published in future updates.
TIMESCALE FOR RESEARCH
Given the enormous range of material requiring spoliation checks, we would expect it to take a further five years to complete spoliation checks on all areas of the collection.
Since the last report Glasgow Museums has been re-structured. The service now has a Major Projects and Research Manager with a staff of four Research Managers covering the disciplines: Art, Technology, History and Natural History. A key aim of this new department is the research and publication of the objects in the collection. In addition we now have a Librarian who, like the Research Managers, is based at our new Resource Centre at 200 Woodhead Road, Nitshill, Glasgow G53 7NN.
2. RESEARCH PLANNED IN TARGET AREAS
METHOD OF RESEARCH
Generally a separate check, though it is woven into ongoing inventory and documentation projects in each of the areas. We are in the process of computerising our object records and that transfer is dominating activities of our registration department at the present time.
3. INFORMATION ON MAKING GENERAL ENQUIRIES ABOUT COLLECTION
Contact Vivien Hamilton or Mark O'Neill, as above.
Information about the collections
French Paintings and Drawings, Illustrated Summary Catalogue, 1985 -
illustrates (largely in colour) each of the works in the McInnes collection.
Millet to Matisse, Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow, by Vivien Hamilton, Glasgow Museums and Yale University Press,2002
A scholarly catalogue of the French 19th century collection is in
preparation.
Many of the French 19th century oils and works on paper can be viewed in digitised form on SCRAN's website (SCOTTISH CULTURAL RESOURCES ACCESS NETWORK) at http://www.scran.ac.uk.
Archives
The institutional records held by Glasgow Museums include acquisition
registers, loans registers, museum annual reports, electronic collections management records, departmental correspondence files and object files. These records are stored in various locations - some supervised by curators, others by registration and documentation staff.
In the first instance enquirers please write to:
Celine Blair, Senior Collections Manager at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre or email: celine.blair@cls.Glasgow.gov.uk.
PRESS OFFICE CONTACT DETAILS
Please contact: Ms Lynne McPhee on 0141 287 5093
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