MacKenzie Mallon, Provenance Specialist at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, is the featured speaker for Creighton University's annual McCormick Lecture in Art History, held at Joslyn Art Museum. The talk is free and open to all.
This lecture will discuss how the art and cultural heritage of Europe faced destruction as a result of Nazi looting, and the role of the Monuments Men in preservation, recovery and restitution of art during and after the war, with an emphasis on Monuments officers who had ties to the Midwest. Mallon will also share how several Midwestern museums helped protect America’s heritage on the home front by serving as safe havens for evacuated art from the East and West Coasts.
What's pictured: (right) Monuments Men from the Kansas City area:
Laurence Sickman, Paul Gardner, and James Reeds.
MacKenzie Mallon is Provenance Specialist at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, where she oversees provenance research, procedures and documentation in conjunction with the curatorial departments. She received her BA in History and MA in Art History from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Mallon’s primary research interest is Nazi-era provenance and the art market during World War II. She was the curator of record for the installation Braving Shells for Art: the Monuments Men of the Nelson-Atkins and is the author of A Refuge from War: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Evacuation of Art to the Midwest during World War II (Getty Research Journal, January 2016). In addition to her work on provenance research and documentation, Mallon is currently studying the initial development of the Nelson-Atkins collection during the early 1930s.
This public lecture is made possible through the support of Joslyn Art Museum, Creighton University's Department of Fine and Performing Arts, the Richard and Mary McCormick Endowment Fund, and the Grace Keenan Fund.