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George Leslie Stout interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 44 minutes
George Leslie Stout (1897-1978) was a museum director and prominent art conservator in Massachusetts. Stout was one of the first U.S. soldiers to be assigned to the MFAA Section and played a prominent role in the recovery of art work stolen by the Nazis. He was appointed Lieutenant Commander of t...

Charles Parkhurst interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 14 minutes
Charles Parkhurst (1913-2008) was an art administrator and curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During World War II, Parkhurst was a U.S. Naval Lieutenant and was later appointed Deputy Chief of the MFAA section in Germany. He helped organize the repatriation efforts in post...

Otto Wittmann 1976 interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 25 minutes
Otto Wittmann (1911-2001) was a curator and director of the Toledo Museum of Art from 1959-1976. During World War II, Wittmann served as a Major with the Air Force but was later transferred to the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) in Washington, D.C. under the Office of Strategic Services. ...

Otto Wittmann 1981 interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 4 minutes
Otto Wittmann (1911-2001) was a curator and director of the Toledo Museum of Art from 1959-1976. During World War II, Wittmann served as a Major with the Air Force but was later transferred to the Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU) in Washington, D.C. under the Office of Strategic Services. ...

S. Lane Faison interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 8 minutes
Samson Lane Faison Jr. (1907-2006) was an art history professor at Williams College, Massachusetts. During World War II, Faison enlisted and served in the Naval Air Force. From 1945 to 1946, Faison was a member of the Office of Strategic Services Art Looting Investigation Unit (ALIU), finding and...

Stanton L. Catlin interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 4 minutes
Stanton L. Catlin (1915-1997) was assistant director of Yale University Art Gallery and later the gallery director and professor at Syracuse University. Before the World War II, Catlin was introduced to Rose Valland, who was the assistant to the director of the Jeu de Paume Museum. During World W...

Thomas Carr Howe interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 34 minutes
Thomas Carr Howe (1904-1994) was the director of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco for nearly four decades. During World War II, Howe enlisted and was a U.S. Naval Lieutenant before being assigned to the MFAA Section, serving from 1945 to 1946 in Germany and Austria. I...

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 13 minutes
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie (1907-1978) was an art administrator and art historian. He was a research assistant and lecturer at the Frick Collection, then the director of the Albright Art Gallery in New York from 1942. After World War II, Ritchie served as a MFAA advisor at the Munich Central Collect...

Walker Hancock interview excerpt

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men - November 22, 2013 12:00 - 24 minutes
Walker Kirtland Hancock (1901-1998) was a prominent sculptor who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1929 to 1967. Hancock was drafted into the Army in 1942 and initially trained as a medic. After being transferred to military intelligence at the Pentagon, Hancock requested t...