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Posts about the work of the MFAA
Meet the "most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration"
Monuments Men

Meet the "most outspoken female voice in post-World War II cultural history restoration"

I stumbled on the story of Evelyn Tucker (1906-1996) while poking around elsewhere and needless to say, it caught my attention.  Here's her Monuments Men Foundation entry, and her Wikipedia entry contains this nugget: "She was described as 'the most outspoken female voice in post-World War
23 May 2025 1 min read
Monuments Man
Monuments Men

Monuments Man

I learned about real-life Monuments Man James Rorimer when I was doing research for The Roses Underneath. I became fascinated with his story - a Harvard-educated curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art who signed up as an infantry man but was quickly recruited into the newly formed Monuments Fine
23 May 2025 1 min read
Who's that guy?
Monuments Men

Who's that guy?

I am fascinated by the cool cat on the left side of the famous photo of Monuments Man James Rorimer and the recovered painting Time and the Old Woman by Goya. He's not named in any description that I can find and he looks like he just wandered
23 May 2025 1 min read
That Which Remains Book Launch
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That Which Remains Book Launch

That Which Remains was launched in the middle of COVID during the height of the online event era. Luckily I have a husband who does events for a living and an entire cohort of generous participants that made the event fun. There was a virtual tour of Wiesbaden, a chat
23 May 2025
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