The decision to acquire works by these artists was announced at the same time as the museum's
deaccessioning of seven works by white, male post-war artists already represented in its collection, including Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline.
The planned sale of these works by the City of Denver, to raise funds for the Clyfford Still Museum's endowment, does not violate the Association's principles regarding the use of funds from
deaccessioned works of art, because the museum has not formally accessioned these works into its collections.
[9] Sometimes Asher gathers facts, like the list he published of all the artworks ever
deaccessioned by the Museum of Modern Art.
Marina Noronha (Brazil) is a curator and researcher with a focus on the role played by the processes of
deaccessioning in the formation and mobility of collections.
Rockwell family files lawsuit against Berkshire Museum
over deaccession plans The Berkshire Museum's planned fundraising sale of 40 works from its collection, including two paintings by Norman Rockwell, has been criticised by multiple commentators, including the Rockwell family.
Berkshire Museum criticised by Rockwell family over
deaccession plans The family of Norman Rockwell has condemned the Berkshire Museum's controversial plans to sell two of the artist's paintings from its collection, reports ArtNews.
Dance wands Date: c. 1910 - 1930 Medium: Wood, paint, feathers, and fiber Credit Line: Gift of Casey Tollett Collins Culture: Hopi Object Number: DEACC.2009.57.1 - 2
Deaccession Criteria: Restitution / Returned to rightful owner: the work has been legally requested for repatriation under Federal Law — Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
Cory Arcangel, Video Painting, 2008, unique VHS tape, color, silent; 120:00 minutes, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 2008, Cory Arcangel, Museum purchase made possible through
Deaccession Funds, 2010.5
«For collectors at that level, we know they are
n't deaccessioning for financial reasons but for emotional...
Artists and curators comment on the Baltimore Museum of Art's decision to diversify its collection through recent acquisitions of works by women and artists of color and by
deaccessioning repetitive works.
It was also during the Armstrong era that the museum
considered deaccessioning works from the collection that didn't meet the strict parameters.
SAM follows the guidelines established by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD)
when deaccessioning artworks.
The process of selling artworks from a museum collection, known
as deaccession, «is a necessity to ensure the greatness of the collection going forward,» Bedford said.
Jones completed a private residency program in Northern California in summer of 2016, during which he produced new work for the exhibition from
books deaccessioned by the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts is planning to
deaccession Edward Hopper «s East Wind over Weehawken, 1934 in order to raise funds to acquire Contemporary art.
Sabrina Gschwandtner's second solo exhibition at Shoshana Wayne Gallery continues her exploration into intricate quilting motifs, expanding on her already complex imagery with the addition of
deaccessioned celluloid film strips of female hands hard at work — sewing, threading, knitting and crocheting their way into our human consciousness.
The Hood Museum of Art strives to be a capable steward of the works in its care, protecting each object for the enjoyment of future generations, understanding the origin of each work in the museum's collection, and, when appropriate,
deaccessioning objects that do not effectively serve the museum's teaching mission.
In 2012 Protetch
began deaccessioning his holdings, and consulting and selling art and architecture.
All three were
subsequently deaccessioned and sold, but the rediscovery of the Ramesseum at Thebes by Alice Pratt Brown Professor John Davis in a New York gallery exhibition in 2015 allowed the Museum to recover one of its foundational works of American art.
SAM has published a list of
previously deaccessioned artworks below, and this list will be updated regularly as changes to the collection are made.
Roberta Smith, in The New York Times, singled out the slippery reasoning that could let Brandeis sell art, but not
formally deaccession it.
Guidelines of the Association of Art Museum Directors
permit deaccessioning (sales of art from museum collections) only if the proceeds are used to buy similar works of art, not to build buildings.
«[If] the Berkshire Museum proceeds with its current plan for
selling deaccessioned works and utilizing the funds for operating and capital purposes [we] will have no choice but to consider taking further action in accordance with its policy, which may include censure and / or sanctions.»
Janson deaccessioned over 600 objects and used the proceeds to acquire approximately 40 works of modern art, including examples of Cubism, Expressionism, and Surrealism, among other predominantly European modernist movements and trends, in order to build the «finest collection of contemporary art assembled on any American campus.»
New acquisitions can significantly enhance museum collections, but the majority are not widely reported — certainly less so than the rare occasions when
institutions deaccession work.
Hence, after 18 months of consideration, the group is
releasing deaccession guidelines reaffirming its traditional stance: that objects may be disposed of only to support new acquisitions, and not used for endowment or operating expenses.
A portrait of Rubens» 12 - year - old daughter Clara Serena, which was
recently deaccessioned by the Met, is going to be housed at the Rubenshuis in Antwerp.
One plan, sure to spark interest in the art community — though it's also meant to foster a more general understanding of collections policy — will urge members to post «in a timely manner» lists of
deaccessioned art.
Deaccessioned twice and the subject of multiple interpretations, a provocative Eakins sporting picture takes its place in a new collection and a new show.
(Details of the policy — such as the ban on «
fractional deaccessions» except to public entities — will be released on July 1.)
«Museums
usually deaccession works in areas of the collection in which they have great depth,» she said.
Marina Valle Noronha (Brazil) worked as a researcher across Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives, reviewing and advising
on deaccessioning.
Another artist collected and
now deaccessioned by Sender, Tony Lewis (b. 1986) had a boffo debut in the Sotheby's day sale when one of his large, spare graphite - on - paper text works from 2012 overshoot an $ 8,000 to $ 12,000 estimate to take in $ 93,750.
While the Rose's collection of nearly 8,000 objects is celebrated — they own an impressive selection of works by Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns, among others — the institution nearly collapsed during the 2008 recession, and
contemplated deaccessioning its many masterpieces.
«About 60 percent of the things we're
deaccessioning came in 1879, so there wasn't that much scholarship, there wasn't that much discrimination,» Mr. Hearn.
Only one work shone out of the blur — Florine Stettheimer's masterpiece, Asbury Park South from 1920 (a painting
scandalously deaccessioned by Fisk University in 2012) in a group exhibition organized by Jeffrey Deitch that orbited and created a lot of visual noise around it in a manner both consistent with Stettheimer's aesthetic of excess and disruptive of the ability to properly view her painting.
Plus: Berkshire Museum criticised by Rockwell family over
deaccession plans Warhol and Rauschenberg foundations team up with Lin - Manuel Miranda to aid Puerto Rico relief efforts and charity auction for Grenfell Tower survivors raises # 1.9 m
These recollections were part of a series of conversations I had recently with artists, curators, and museum professionals, after the Baltimore Museum of Art announced last month that it would be diversifying its collection to enhance visitor experience through recent acquisitions of works by women and artists of color and by
deaccessioning repetitive works.