Charles Parkhurst's guest appearances

Charles Parkhurst

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

Lane Faison

Robert Bechtle

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

OwlTail

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.

Charles Parkhurst interview excerpt