During WWII, many pieces of art were looted or stolen. Now, museums are working to make things right.
BOSTON, Mass. — In museums across the country, there is a growing push to return art that was potentially stolen or looted decades or even centuries ago. It all comes during a new era of accountability for public institutions.
Victoria Reed is the Sadler Curator for Provenance at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has spent the better part of 20 years exploring the history of various works of art at the MFA. According to the Archaeological Institute of America, 85 percent of classical artifacts on the market do not have a documented provenance. Nailing down an exact number of how many works of art in museums across the country may have been stolen or looted.
"Who really owns a painting, the person who pays for it? The person whose work of art it was or is?" Nolta said.Last month, amid growing calls for restitution the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston returned"View of Beverwijk." The painting was returned to the family of the man who originally owned it before Nazis looted the painting from a vault in Hungary during World War II.
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