I. A general reference on provenance and museum provenance research project:
Museum of Fine Art, Boston https://www.mfa.org/collections/provenance
Freer and Sackler Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art https://asia.si.edu/collections/provenance-research/
The Getty Research Institute https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/provenance/
The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/provenance-research-project
MOMA https://www.moma.org/collection/provenance
Princeton Univesity Art Museum https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/provenance-research
Yeide, Nancy, et al. The AAM Guide to Provenance Research. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 2001.
International Foundation for Art Research. “Provenance & Due Diligence,” special double issue of IFAR Journal, Volume 3, nos. 3&4, 2000. [proceedings of an IFAR/NYU conference]
II. Antiquities and Cultural Property Issues
New Acquisitions of Archaeological Material and Works of Ancient Art https://aamd.org/object-registry/new-acquisitions-of-archaeological-material-and-works-of-ancient-art/more-info
Strengthened Guidelines on the Acquisition of Archaeological Material and Ancient Art Issued by the Association of Art Museum Directors https://aamd.org/for-the-media/press-release/strengthened-guidelines-on-the-acquisition-of-archaeological-material
Brodie, Neil, Morag Kersel, Christina Luke & Kathryn Walker Tub, eds. Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and the Antiquities Trade. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006.
Conn, Steven. “Where Is the East?: Asian Objects in American Museums, from Nathan Dunn to Charles Freer.” Winterthur Portfolio 35, no. 2/3 (July 1, 2000): 157–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/496822.
Cohen, Warren. East Asian Art and American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
Cuno, James. Who Owns Antiquity? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Darraby, Jessica L. Art, Artifact, Architecture and Museum Law. Eagan, MN: Thomson
Reuters/West, 2008. Felch, Jason and Ralph Frammolinio. Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities and the
World’s Richest Museum. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. Gerstenblith, Patty. Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law: Cases and Materials. Durham, NC:
Carolina Academic Press, 2008 (second edition).
Gibbon, Kate Fitz. Who Owns the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Hoffman, Barbara T., ed. Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Merryman, John Henry and Stephen K. Urice. Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts, 5th ed. The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International BV, 2007.
Meyer, Karl E., and Shareen Blair Brysac, The China Collectors: America’s Century-long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015)
Miles, Margaret M. Art as Plunder: The Ancient Origins of Debate about Cultural Property. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
O’Keefe, Patrick J. Trade in Antiquities: Reducing Destruction and Theft. London: UNESCO, 1997. Richman, Jennifer R. and Marion P. Forsyth. Legal Perspectives on Cultural Resources. Lanham,MD: Alta Mira Press, 2004.
Waxman, Sharon. Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World. New York: Times Books, 2008.
III.Looted Artworks During the Nazi Period
American Alliance of Museums, Unlawful Appropriation of Objects During the Nazi-Era https://www.aam-us.org/programs/ethics-standards-and-professional-practices/unlawful-appropriation-of-objects-during-the-nazi-era/
Association of Art Museum Directors, Resolutions of Claims for Nazi-Era Cultural assets https://aamd.org/object-registry/resolution-of-claims-for-nazi-era-cultural-assets/more-info
Cleveland Museum of Art, Nazi-Era Provenance https://www.clevelandart.org/research/curatorial/nazi-era-provenance
National Archives, Looted Art Bibliography https://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/bibliographies/looted-art.html
Bazyler, Michael J. Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Bazyler, Michael J. and Roger P. Alford. Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and its Legacy. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Edsel, Robert M. The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. New York: Center Street, 2009.
Edsel, Robert M. Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe’s Great Art: America and her Allies Recovered It. Dallas: Laurel Publishing, 2006.
Edsel, Robert M. Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013.
Morozzi, Luisa. Treasures Untraced: An Inventory of the Italian Art Treasures Lost during the Second World War. Rome: Instituto poligrafico e zecca dello stato, 1995.
Müller, Melissa. Lost Lives, Lost Art: Jewish Collectors, Nazi Art Theft, and the Quest for Justice. New York: Vendome Press, 2010.
Nicholas, Lynn H. The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War. New York: Knopf, 1994.
Simpson, Elizabeth, ed. The Spoils of War: World War II and its Aftermath: The Loss, Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997.
Wechsler, Helen J. Museum Policy and Procedures for Nazi-Era Issues. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 2001.
Yeide, Nancy. Vitalizing Memory: International Perspectives on Provenance Research. Washington, D.C:. American Association of Museums, 2005. (proceedings of an AAM conference)
IV.Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
National Park Service, NAGPRA https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, NAGPRA & Repatriation https://www.peabody.harvard.edu/node/310
Penn Museum, NAGPRA https://www.penn.museum/about-collections/statements-and-policies/nagpra-compliance