In response to the recent inquiry about the Museum Loan Network (MLN),
following is our latest press release.
For more information about MLN, a program that facilitates and funds the
long-term loan of artworks among museums nationwide, please contact:
Lori Gross, Director
Museum Loan Network
MIT, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-439
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel: 617/252-1888
Fax: 617/252-1899
E-mail: loanet.mit.edu
URL: http://loanet.mit.edu/Web/
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For Immediate Release
Museum Loan Network Awards 18 Grants
Funds added for provenance and copyright research
Cambridge...The Museum Loan Network (MLN), a program funded by the John S.
and James L. Knight Foundation and The Pew Charitable Trusts, awarded 18
grants totaling nearly $280,000 in its most recent grant cycle. Grants
awarded in this round ranged in size from $3,022 to $40,000.
The grants, awarded to institutions nationwide, include funding for the loan
of 30 objects from five New England museums to the Memorial Art Gallery in
Rochester, NY. These loans will bring to life John Singleton Copley's
portrait of Boston silversmith Nathaniel Hurd by enabling the work to be
exhibited within the context of 18th century colonial life.
The MLN has also announced the availability of new funding that will allow
survey grantees to do much needed provenance and copyright research. "It is
exciting to see MLN expand its programming and so quickly respond to the
needs of the museum community" said Linda Shearer, Director of the Williams
College Museum of Art and MLN Advisory Committee member. "Providing money
for provenance research, in connection with survey grants, addresses a
pressing concern for all of us."
The Museum Loan Network, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) and administered through MIT’s Office of the Arts, was developed in
October 1995 to promote and foster collection-sharing of art objects on a
long-term basis among museums in the United States.
The following grants were awarded in May 1998:
SURVEYING GRANTS ($12,000 - $15,000 range)
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of
Arctic Studies Center, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of Alaskan art
Bayly Art Museum,University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of African, Oceanic, Native American, and pre-Columbian art
The Hispanic Society of America, New York, NY:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of Hispanic and non-Hispanic objects, paintings, and works on
paper
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of Egyptian and Ethiopian art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, NE:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of early 20th century American paintings
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
Philadelphia, PA:
To identify objects, for inclusion in the MLN Directory, from its
collection(s) of Pre-Columbian art
TRAVEL GRANTS ($3,000 - $5,200 range)
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA:
For travel to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Peabody Essex Museum, MA;
Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, MA; and The Semitic Museum,
Harvard University, MA/ to explore loans of Egyptian and Nubian material
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA:
For travel to Peabody Essex Museum, MA/ to explore loans of Chinese blue and
white ware
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA:
For travel to Addison Gallery of American Art, MA and Yale University Art
Gallery, CT/ to explore loans of American art
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH:
For travel to Duke University Museum of Art, NC/ to explore loans of
Medieval art
Iñupiat Heritage Center, Ilisagvik College, Barrow, AK:
For travel to Arctic Studies Center, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, DC/ to
to explore loans of Iñupiat objects
Museum of Afro American History, Inc., Brookline, MA:
For travel to Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, MI;
Howard University Gallery of Art, DC; Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture, NY; and Studio Museum in Harlem, NY/ to explore loans of art
objects from 18th and 19th century African American culture
Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA:
For travel to Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, TN/ to
explore loans of objects relating to African American culture
IMPLEMENTATION GRANTS ($20,000 - $40,000 range)
Albany Museum of Art, GA:
For loan of five William Edmondson limestone figurative sculptures from The
Newark Museum, NJ
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA:
For loan of nine pre-Columbian objects and one Spanish Colonial object from
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH and Duke University Museum of Art, NC
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY:
For loan of thirty silver objects and engravings by Hurd from American
Antiquarian Society, MA; Historic Deerfield, Inc., MA; Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, MA; and Worcester Art
Museum, MA
Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO:
For loan of two Spanish Colonial santos from the Museo de Arte de Ponce, PR
Stanford University Museum of Art, CA:
For loan of thirty-two Etruscan, Medieval, Oceanic, and modern sculptural
works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Norton Simon Museum, CA;
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, PA; and
The Walters Art Gallery, MD
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The MLN deadlines for 1998-99 are December 4, 1998 and May 7, 1999.
To request guidelines or for more information, contact: Lori Gross,
Director, Museum Loan Network, MIT,
265 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-439, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 at 617-252-1888
(e-mail: [log in to unmask]).
http://loanet.mit.edu/Web/
Lori Gross, Director
Museum Loan Network
MIT
265 Massachusetts Ave., N52-439
Cambridge, MA 02139-4370
tel: 617-252-1888
fax: 617-252-1899
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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