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(Q49133)

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston

art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • MFA Boston
  • MFA
  • MFAB
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logo image
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Logo.jpg
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director / manager
Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III
end time
1996
1 reference
stated in
Dictionary of Art Historians
reference URL
http://arthistorians.info/vermeulec
retrieved
24 May 2019
quotation
When the Museum's director, Perry Rathbone (q.v.) was relieved of his duties during the 1970 centennial celebration because of the acquisition of a stolen Raphael, Vermeule assumed the acting directorship. It was during his time as director that the Museum purchased an important work, Cézanne's last self-portrait. For the 1973-1974 academic year Vermeule was a visiting faculty at Yale University. In 1978 he received an appointment at Boston College. Vermeule's tenure as curator was marked by the acquisition of two large vases portraying the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon, a Roman portrait of an old man, and a Minoan gold double ax. He retired in 1996 and was succeeded by John Herrmann. (English)
Malcolm Rogers
start time
1994
end time
2015
1 reference
reference URL
http://www.wbur.org/artery/2015/06/24/malcolm-rogers-mfa-retirement-celebrations
title
MFA Celebrates Malcolm Rogers' Final Days As Director With Free Admission And Gelato (English)
publication date
24 June 2015
publisher
WBUR-FM
total assets
1,324,479,765 United States dollar
point in time
2022
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
1,431,187,770 United States dollar
point in time
2021
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
total revenue
113,259,858 United States dollar
point in time
2016
1 reference
Charity Navigator ID (obsolete)
4137
retrieved
13 January 2019
148,263,439 United States dollar
point in time
2022
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
137,057,905 United States dollar
point in time
2021
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
significant event
claim for restitution of an artwork
point in time
2017
1 reference
reference URL
https://www.jta.org/2017/05/04/united-states/boston-museum-pays-heirs-for-18th-century-figurines-to-settle-holocaust-restitution-claim
title
Boston museum pays heirs for 18th-century figurines to settle Holocaust restitution claim (English)
publication date
4 May 2017
language of work or name
English
retrieved
13 May 2025
author name string
Penny Schwartz
quotation
MAY 4, 2017 11:54 AMBOSTON (JTA) — The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has settled a Holocaust-era restitution claim with the estate of a Jewish collector that allows the museum to retain seven pieces of 18th-century German porcelain that were sold in Berlin in 1937 during Nazi-era persecution.The settlement for an undisclosed amount of money to the heirs of the estate of Emma Budge was announced Wednesday by the museum. (English)
restitution of Nazi-looted art
point in time
2022
1 reference
stated in
MFA returns painting stolen from Jewish collector during WWII
title
MFA returns painting stolen from Jewish collector during WWII | WBUR News (English)
publication date
27 February 2022
retrieved
13 May 2025
reference URL
https://web.archive.org/web/20220227035025/https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/01/25/mfa-returns-painting-stolen-from-jewish-collector-during-wwii
quotation
When Nazi forces invaded Hungary in 1944, the Jewish politician and art collector Ferenc Chorin and his family were lucky to escape with their lives. Chorin’s collection of paintings, which he left in a vault in the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, was less fortunate. The entire collection disappeared from the vault in the course of the war — likely looted during the Siege of Budapest in 1945.Nearly 80 years later, Chorin’s family located one of the paintings, “View of Beverwijk,” in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The museum announced this month that it had reached an agreement to return the painting to the family. (English)
claim for restitution of an artwork
point in time
2007
1 reference
stated in
Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute; Insist pressures of era led to painting's sale
retrieved
13 May 2025
reference URL
https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=N2MD3I543731
quotation
Holocaust historians are criticizing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its stance in an escalating legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable 1913 painting. The work, Oskar Kokoschka's "Two Nudes (Lovers)," has hung at the MFA almost continuously since 1973.The dispute began in March 2007, when attorneys for Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, an Austrian woman who says she is the rightful owner of "Two Nudes," approached the museum demanding its return. Lawyers for Seger-Thomschitz, an heir to Jewish art collector Oskar Reichel, say Reichel sold the painting under duress in Nazi-occupied 1939 Vienna.But the MFA says that Reichel sold the painting voluntarily and that it never passed through Nazi hands. After the museum conducted its own research into the painting's history, it presented its findings to Seger-Thomschitz's lawyers and requested that she drop her claim for restitution. When she refused, the museum filed suit against her in January in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts to establish legal title to the painting (English)
donations
60,830,658 United States dollar
point in time
2022
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
62,410,288 United States dollar
point in time
2021
1 reference
stated in
Nonprofit Explorer
retrieved
1 November 2024
social media followers
407,285
X numeric user ID
38213768
point in time
7 January 2021
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384,110
X numeric user ID
38213768
point in time
10 May 2018
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408,709
X numeric user ID
38213768
point in time
26 February 2022
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408,016
X numeric user ID
38213768
point in time
7 February 2023
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has part(s)
Q99533722
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Commons gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Commons category
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Identifiers

ISIL
US-32
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ISNI
0000000122918830
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BAnQ authority ID
0000072372
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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NORAF ID
90183290
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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CANTIC ID
981058514580406706
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston (Massachusetts). Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
1 reference
VIAF cluster ID
151846308
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
XX85717
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
11866613c
subject named as
Museum of fine arts (Boston, Mass.)
alternative name
MFA
Boston museum of fine arts
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stated in
BnF authorities
retrieved
26 August 2015
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf10460883
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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GND ID
38524-4
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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FAST ID
533093
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Bosuton Bijutsukan
MFA
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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National Library of Greece ID
287866
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Βοστώνη)
alternative name
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών (Βοστώνη)
Βοστώνη (Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής). Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών
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J9U ID
987007526377305171
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Library of Congress authority ID
n79058410
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Bosuton Bijutsukan
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
MFA
ボストン美術館
名古屋ボストン美術館
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National Library of Latvia ID
000093399
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Bostona, Amerikas Savienotās Valstis)
ostona (Amerikas Savienotās Valstis). Museum of Fine Arts
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National Library of Ireland ID
vtls000331124
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
alternative name
MFA
Bosuton Bijutsukan
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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NDL Authority ID
00277364
subject named as
ボストン美術館
alternative name
ボストン ビジュツカン
Bosuton Bijutsukan
MFA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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NACSIS-CAT author ID
DA00275756
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Bosuton Bijutsukan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ボストン美術館（ボストン ビジュツカン）
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stated in
CiNii Research
CiNii Research ID
1140282266754881152
retrieved
15 February 2023
NL CR AUT ID
ko2003165022
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
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NSK ID
000011566
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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NUKAT ID
n98065811
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
MFA
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National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810692668305606
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
MFA
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Libris-URI
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subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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SELIBR ID
358158
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
alternative name
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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IdRef ID
06171447X
subject named as
Museum of fine arts (Boston, Mass.)
alternative name
Boston (Mass) -- Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Museum of fine arts
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Library of Congress Classification
N520
subject named as
Fine Arts--Visual arts--Art museums, galleries, etc.--Special countries and special museums--United States--Boston, Mass.--Museum of Fine Arts
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Bibale ID
43333
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FactGrid item ID
Q254891
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LibraryThing author ID
artsbostonmuseumoffi
subject named as
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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NLA Trove people ID
1273952
subject named as
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Nomisma ID
mfa_boston
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PermID
4296747472
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ROR ID
00nsa3x45
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SNAC ARK ID
w6290xtg
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Songkick venue ID
18065
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Tate artist ID
13881
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Te Papa agent ID
6866
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vici.org ID
58118
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