Charles Percy Parkhurst
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Charles Percy Parkhurst (January 23, 1913 – June 25, 2008) was an American
Early years
Charles Percy Parkhurst was born in 1913 in Columbus, Ohio.
He entered Oberlin College as a music major, then later a physics student, but after the science department prohibited him from conducting a personal research project, he transferred to Williams College.[citation needed]
At Williams, Parkhurst initially studied geology but was inspired by Professor Karl E. Weston, the founder of the Williams College Museum of Art, to major in fine arts and pursue a career in the field.[1]
Following his graduation from Williams in 1935, Parkhurst spent the next two years building bridges and roads in Alaska before returning to Oberlin for an M.A., which he completed in 1938.
Working years
When Charles Parkhurst returned to the United States from the front, he found a job at the Albright Art gallery in Buffalo, now known as the
See also
- American Association of Museums
- Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
- National Gallery of Art
- Williams College Museum of Art
References
- ^ DiFulco, Denise. "A Monumental Achievement: Two Williams legends helped to recover and return some of Europe's greatest art treasures plundered by the Nazis". Williams Magazine. Williams College. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ a b Grimes, William (June 28, 2008). "Charles Parkhurst, Who Tracked Down Looted Art, Dies at 95". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ "Charles P. Parkhurst Art Conservation Fund". Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin College. Archived from the original on May 16, 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ "Charles Parkhurst on Collecting". Vimeo. Allen Memorial Art Museum. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Charles Parkhurst, 1982 October 27". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1982-10-27. Archived from the original on May 25, 2011.
- ^ Rosenthal, Gertrude, "Charles Parkhurst: His Years as the Museum's Director," The Baltimore Museum of Art Record, Vol. 1, No. 4 (December 1970): p. 3-6.
- ^ "Parkhurst, Charles [Percy]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Art History Association.
External links
- "Charles Percy Parkhurst (1913-2008)". Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art.
- "Charles Percy Parkhurst Papers". Williams College Archives and Special Collections.
- W. Barksdale Maynard, When Art Historians Went to War Princeton Alumni Weekly 2 June 2010