Langdon Warner (1881–1955) was an American archaeologist and art historian specializing in East Asian art. He was a professor at Harvard and the Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard’s Fogg Museum. He is reputed to be one of the models for Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones. As an explorer/agent at the turn of the 20th century,he studied the Silk Road. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1927.
Jean Sutherland Boggs,was a Canadian academic,art historian and civil servant. She was the first female Director of both the National Gallery of Canada and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was also a specialist in the work of Edgar Degas and Picasso.
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums:the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis,the Fogg Museum,the Busch-Reisinger Museum,and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and four research centers:the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art,the Harvard Art Museums Archives,and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. The three museums that constitute the Harvard Art Museums were initially integrated into a single institution under the name Harvard University Art Museums in 1983. The word "University" was dropped from the institutional name in 2008.
Paul Joseph Sachs was an American investor,businessman and museum director. Sachs served as associate director of the Fogg Art Museum and as a partner in the financial firm Goldman Sachs. He is recognized for having developed one of the earliest museum studies courses in the United States.
James Joseph Rorimer,was an American museum curator and former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,where he was a primary force behind the creation of the Cloisters,a branch of the museum dedicated to the art and architecture of Medieval Europe. During World War II,Rorimer served in the U.S. Army's Monuments,Fine Arts and Archives Section,a.k.a. the "Monuments Men," protecting cultural sites and recovering stolen art work.
The Monuments,Fine Arts,and Archives program (MFAA) under the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied armies was established in 1943 to help protect cultural property in war areas during and after World War II. The group of approximately 400 service members and civilians worked with military forces to safeguard historic and cultural monuments from war damage,and as the conflict came to a close,to find and return works of art and other items of cultural importance that had been stolen by the Nazis or hidden for safekeeping. Some of them are portrayed and honored in the 2014 film The Monuments Men.
Sir Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse was an English art historian and museum director who specialised in Roman baroque and English painting. He was Director of the National Galleries of Scotland (1949–52) and held the Barber chair at Birmingham University until his official retirement in 1970.
Mason Hammond was an American educator and scholar. He was a Harvard University professor,an authority on Latin and the history of Rome and its empire,and chairman of the board of trustees at St. Mark's School.
Patrick Lennox Tierney was an American Japanologist academic in the field of art history,an emeritus professor of the University of Utah,a former Curator of Japanese Art at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts,a former Director of the Pacific Asia Museum,and a former Commissioner of Art and Monuments during the Allied occupation of Japan (1945–1952).
L. Bancel LaFarge (1900–1989) was an American architect. He was a founding member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Sherman Emery Lee was an American academic,writer,art historian and expert on Asian art. He was Director of the Cleveland Museum of Art from 1958 to 1983.
Laurence Chalfant Stevens Sickman (1907–1988) was an American academic,art historian,sinologist and Director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Harold Gould Henderson (1889–1974) was an American academic,art historian and Japanologist. He was a Columbia University professor for twenty years. From 1948 through 1952,he was the President of the Japan Society in New York,and in 1968 he cofounded the Haiku Society of America.
James "Jim" Bash Cuno is an American art historian and curator. From 2011-2022 Cuno served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the J. Paul Getty Trust.
George Leslie Stout was an American art conservation specialist and museum director who founded the first laboratory in the United States to study art conservation,as well as the first journal on the subject of art conservation. During World War II,he was a member of the U.S. Army unit devoted to recovering art,the Monuments,Fine Arts,and Archives section (MFAA),a.k.a. "The Monuments Men."
Craig Hugh Smyth (1915–2006) was an American art historian who studied Renaissance art,with a special emphasis on the artist Bronzino. During World War II,he established the Allied Munich Central Collecting Point for Nazi-looted art,as part of the Monuments,Fine Arts,and Archives program.
Edith Standen was an American museum curator and military officer,best known as an expert on tapestries and as one of the "Monuments Men" who located and protected art works after World War II.
Peter Campbell Sutton is an American art historian. A specialist on seventeenth-century Dutch art,Sutton served as the Susan E. Lynch Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science from 2001 to 2019.
Dorothy G. Payer Shepherd was a museum curator and historian specialising in medieval textiles and ancient Near Eastern and Islamic art. During the Second World War she served with the Monuments,Fine Arts,and Archives program.
