Lane Faison's guest appearances

Lane Faison

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

Robert Bechtle

Andrew Carnduff Ritchie

OwlTail

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 recovering art stolen by the Nazis. In this audio clip, Faison discusses his exploits as a Monuments Men, starting with the phone call asking him to join the ALIU and later working as the director of the Munich Central Collecting Point, one of several locations established by the U.S. State Department to gather the recovered art for repatriation.

S. Lane Faison interview excerpt