Andrew Carnduff Ritchie's guest appearances

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art

Oral History Interview Excerpts: Monuments Men

Judy Chicago

Thomas Carr

Dennis Oppenheim

Walker Hancock

Stanton L. Catlin

Frank Romero

Carmen Lomas Garza

Joan Snyder

Otto Wittmann

George Leslie Stout

Willie Herrón

Gilbert Luján

Charles Parkhurst

Lane Faison

Robert Bechtle

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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 Collecting Point where he supervised the restitution of artwork, notably Vermeer's The Art of Painting, which was owned by the Czernin family up until the war. In this audio clip, Ritchie talks about the highlights of his MFAA experiences, especially the fate of the "Czernin Vermeer" and his experience transporting the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire from Nuremberg to Vienna.

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie interview excerpt