The format was as follows (if I am recalling correctly):
Object name/title (18 pt type)
Artist or culture name (18 pt type)
Country/region of origin, date (18 pt type)
Media; technique if applicable (16 pt type)
Donor credit; accession number (10 or 12 pt type)
Then any kind of interpretive information followed the identification
information.
The typical donor credit line was like one of these:
Anonymous Gift, 70.22
Gift of William Gotbucks, 70.22
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Gotbucks, 70.22
Gift of William and Sadie Gotbucks, 70.22
Gotbucks Family gift, 70.22 (this was if the donor wanted to cram a lot
of names onto the credit line)
Gotbucks purchase fund, 70.22 (this was if the donor had endowed money
for the museum to use for purchases)
Promised gift of William Gotbucks, L70.22 (this was for arrangements
when the donor would give a part of the gift over a period of years)
Lent by William Gotbucks (this was when it was on temporary loan for a
specific exhibition)
The museum I worked for discouraged long-term indefinite loans and tried
very hard to make them into promised gifts. There were one or two
donors who were stubborn about calling them loans--these were very, um,
traditional donors who insisted on having them credited as "Gotbucks
collection" and we catalogued them as LXX.yyy to indicate that they were
not museum property.
Julia Muney Moore
Public Art Administrator
Blackburn Architects, Indianapolis, IN
(317) 875-5500 x230
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Julia
Your former director's feeling is where we are now. Did you have any
rules about how you listed the name, or any restrictions in the length
or wording?
John Odell
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In a previous museum position we habitually displayed the donor name or
purchase fund credit on the object label (in fine print) unless the
donor or fund requested us not to. Most donors wanted their generosity
publicly announced; however, some felt it was a security risk and did
not want us to list their name. Our director liked to list the names
right next to the artwork because it encouraged others to make similar
gifts of art. I can understand all positions.
Julia Muney Moore
Public Art Administrator
Blackburn Architects, Indianapolis, IN
(317) 875-5500 x230
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