Robert Edsel's Blog
TWO YEARS AGO, WE LOST A GREAT HERO, MONUMENTS MAN SHERMAN LEE
July 12th, 2010 | 1:31 pm
On July 11, 2008 we lost a great hero, Monuments Man Sherman Lee. Today I would like to share his story with you – we honor him by remembering. A renowned expert on Asian art, Sherman Lee served as a Lieutenant in the Naval reserve from 1944 until 1946, when he began working as an [...]
A FRIEND OF THE MONUMENTS MEN PASSES
July 2nd, 2010 | 2:05 pm
James N. Wood, long time director of the Art Institute of Chicago (1980-2004) and more recently President and CEO of the Getty Trust, died recently. I met Jim Wood more than 3 years ago at the memorial service for one of his great mentors, Monuments Man S. Lane Faison, Jr, his college professor of art [...]
REMBRANDT’S NIGHTWATCH UNVEILED
June 30th, 2010 | 2:31 pm
On June 30, 1945, Rembrandt van Rijn’s masterpiece, Nightwatch (Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq), was formally unrolled at the Rijksmuseum after having been returned to Amsterdam by the Dutch canal system on a special boat. The painting had spent the last six years in hiding, in no fewer than four different repositories. It [...]
Who Were The Monuments Men?
The Monuments Men were a group of men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered had expertise as museum directors, curators, art scholars and educators, artists, architects, and archivists. The Monuments Men job description was simple: to save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat.
These men not only had the vision to understand the grave threat to the greatest cultural and artistic achievements of civilization, but then joined the front lines to do something about it.
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