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Sound recordings
Interviews
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Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:00:00 -0500
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© 2016 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Podcast Keywords:
interview, artist, artists, oral history, Smithsonian, Archives of American Art
Podcast Category:
Arts
Visual Arts
Government
Business
Non-Profit
Society & Culture
History
Description:
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 postwar Germany at the Munich Central Collecting Point, where the art was collected for restitution to their countries of origin. In this audio clip, Parkhurst talks about art looting by the Nazis and the Wiesbaden Manifesto, signed by Parkhurst and many other Monuments Men, protesting the removal of German-owned artworks to the United States for safekeeping after the war.
Duration:
843 SECS
Author:
smithsonianaaa@gmail.com (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
Subtitle:
Charles Parkhurst on Nazi art looting and the Weisbaden Manifesto
Size:
10.1 MB
Topic:
Art  Search this
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Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art
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Archives of American Art
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