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MUSEUM LOAN NETWORK AWARDS 18 GRANTS
FUNDS ADDED FOR PROVENANCE AND COPYRIGHT RESEARCH
(Cambridge, MA) July 17, 1998 – 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 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.
Grants awarded in this round ranged in size from $3,000 to $40,000.