ANOTHER SUCCESS FOR THE MONUMENTS MEN FOUNDATION
May 14th, 2010 | 11:15 am
Since its founding almost 3 years ago the Monuments Men Foundation has been working to encourage museums and collectors alike to comply with best practices guidelines. Simply stated, that means “know your collection” and where the objects were during the reign of the Nazis: 1933-1946. Many museums, and some collectors, have embraced these guidelines. Some have been slow to catch up. A few continue to ignore the matter.
Belo’s Dallas station, WFAA, an ABC affiliate, broadcast a piece last evening highlighting a recent case we discovered several years ago at SMU’s Meadows Museum in conjunction with research on my first book, Rescuing Da Vinci. Officials at the Meadows are now aggressively engaged conducting key provenance research on their collection as a whole and the two paintings covered by the story in particular, to their credit.
This case highlights one aspect of the work of the Foundation and the tangible results we continue to obtain while trying to work with important institutions like the Meadows Museum.
You can view the story by clicking on the following link:
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Art-Stolen-by-Hitler-Found-at-SMU-Meadows-Museum.html
Tags: ABC, Belo, Channel 8, Dallas, David Schechter, Hitler, Meadows Museum, Monuments Men, Monuments Men Foundation, Nazi, Paintings with a past, Rescuing Da Vinci, Robert Edsel, SMU, Stolen, Texas, WFAA, World War II Veterans
