Additional Reading on Provenance Issues

  • Alford, Kenneth D. The Spoils of World War II: The American Military’s Role in the Stealing of Europe’s Treasures, New York 1994.
  • Edsel, Robert M., The Monuments Men: Allied heroes, Nazi thieves, and the greatest treasure hunt in history, New York 2009.
  • Edsel, Robert M., Rescuing da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis stole Europe’s great art, America and her allies recovered it, Dallas 2006.
  • Feliciano, Hector, The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art, New York 1997.
  • Howe, Thomas Carr, Salt Mines and Castles: The Discovery and Restitution of Looted European Art, Indianapolis 1946.
  • Kurtz, Michael, Nazi Contraband: American Policy on the Return of European Cultural Treasures, New York 1985.
  • Nicholas, Lynn, The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War, New York 1994.
  • Petropoulos, Jonathan, Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Chapel Hill and London 1996.
  • Petropoulos, Jonathan, The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi Germany, Oxford 2000.
  • Plunder and Restitution: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims' Assets, Findings and Recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and Staff Report, December 2000.
  • Simpson, Elizabeth, ed., The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property, New York 1997.
  • Yeide, Nancy H, Konstantin Akinsha and Amy L. Walsh, The AAM Guide to Provenance Research, American Association of Museums, 2001.
  • Yeide, Nancy, Beyond the dreams of avarice: the Hermann Goering collection, Dallas 2009.

Publications on IMA's European Collection

  • Lee, Ellen W., ed., Indianapolis Museum of Art: Highlights of the Collection, Indianapolis 2005.
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art Collections Handbook, Indianapolis 1988.
  • Lee, Ellen W., The Aura of Neo-Impressionism; the W.J. Holliday Collection, Indianapolis 1983.
  • Janson, Anthony F. and A. Ian Fraser, 100 Masterpieces of Painting: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis 1980.
  • Fraser, A. Ian, A Catalogue of the Clowes Collection, Indianapolis 1973.
  • Miller, Dwight C., Catalogue of European Paintings, Indianapolis 1970.

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