The purpose of this project is to garner as much accurate information on the artwork from the permanent collection posted on this site to better fulfill the mission of the museum as a teaching institution with a variety of resources available to the public. To do this, volunteers are needed to assist in discovering basic identifying information for the objects, such as artist name, life dates, title, etc. Though the museum may have some of this information in their records, it is important to have verification of facts for future use in exhibit labels and for visiting scholars.
Each week one or more works of art of varying mediums and cultural backgrounds will be posted on the site. A series of images will be posted for your research, a full view of the artwork and close-ups of any significant details. At the bottom of the post will be questions and information for which the collections staff is seeking answers. Your task as our research assistants is to use the comment section below to post the information you can gather from the images above, be it a translation of the text, a transcription of the artist’s signature, or basic information such as the date of the work. All of which would be extremely beneficial to the museum!
A collections staff member will retrieve the information you have gathered at least twice daily and leave comments or further questions to aid with the research.
Thank you for all of your assistance and again, every ounce of data you can find will be beneficial to the research of the Martin Museum’s collection.