Provenance · Gift
Arthur D. Brooks
This catalog gathers 26 public-domain works given to the museum by Arthur D. Brooks. Every work is held by Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Bookplate: William Macey Stone -
Bookplate: Florence Sylva Wheeler -
Bookplate: Elizabeth M. Watt, M.D. -
Bookplate: Margarethe Strauss -
Bookplate: Elizabeth M. Leete -
Bookplate: Elizabeth Huntting -
Bookplate: John W. Lowe -
Bookplate: Walter Dutton Baker -
Bookplate: W. M. T. -
Bookplate: Abbie B. Stone -
Bookplate: Leonora Elizabeth Phipard -
Bookplate: Johan. Jac. Franz-Joseph, Reichs-Graf von Westerhold -
Bookplate: William B. Foster -
Bookplate: Ward Cameron -
Bookplate: Leander McBride -
Bookplate: R. G. C. -
Bookplate: Elmi P. Mills -
Bookplate: Wilbur Macey Stone -
Bookplate: Amy Ivers Truesdell -
Bookplate: Leonard Smelt, Esq. -
Bookplate: Hayden Hall, Western Reserve University -
Bookplate: Edmund Poley of Badley -
Bookplate: Ella Huntting -
Bookplate: Anna Anderle -
Bookplate: Ruthven Deane -
Bookplate: Rollin W. Lusk
On provenance & the public domain
A credit line — the small "Gift of…" note beside a work on a museum wall — records its provenance: how the object passed from a private hand into a public collection, whether as an outright gift, a bequest left in a will, the purchase from a named endowment, or an entire collection acquired at once. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can study, share, and reproduce them freely. Browsing by provenance follows the human story behind a museum's holdings — the collectors and benefactors whose generosity put these works where the public can see them.
Every work in this catalog is in the public domain; images come from the museums that hold them.