Hi Merrianne,
At the moment I cannot speak to the second half of your question, as we are in the process of standardizing our constituents in terms of nationalities and preferences.
Although, I can let you know that we do use “born in France” as our display name should it be deemed necessary.
Best Regards,
Sarah Gillis | Assistant Registrar, Image Management
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM / www.worcesterart.org
fifty-five salisbury street / worcester, massachusetts 01609
508.799.4406/ direct 508.793.4427 / fax 508.799.8638
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Hi Merrianne,
1) We have a rule to exclude prepositions from our display bios, so we go with “American, born France.”
2) We always use contemporary place names and if appropriate we follow this with the historic designations in parentheses. But we don’t always include historical designations, this depends on our curators.
Examples:
Contemporary place name (Historic designations)
Tokyo (Edo)
St. Petersburg (Leningrad)
Our bio for Archipenko:
American (born Ukraine), Kiev 1887–1964 New York
Our bio for Lipchitz:
American (born Lithuania), Druskininkai 1891–1973 Capri
Let me know if you have any other questions.
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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 3:01 PM
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Subject: TMS - Constituents Display Bio Questions
Greetings, TMS List Servers,
I would appreciate your input regarding two questions:
1) How do you enter data regarding an artist of a particular nationality who was born in another country? For example, do you enter American, born France OR American, born in France?
2) In view of recent political events, we are reviewing how we have catalogued artists such as Jacques Lipchitz and Alexander Archipenko who were born in areas under Russian control at the time, but are now independent nations. ULAN and many museum websites appear to prefer using the name of the modern nation, overlooking the historical geography. I have always felt that it was important to capture both the historical and modern geography associated with an artist. Thus, for Archipenko, using a Display Bio along the lines of American, born Russia (present-day Ukraine). Archipenko initially had a Russian identity card, then a Ukrainian passport, and then an American passport. I would be very interested in how other museums have dealt with such an issue.
Many thanks,
Merrianne Timko
Data Standards Manager
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
PO Box 6826 Houston, Texas 77265-6826
713.353.1523 Office
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