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George L. (George Leslie) Stout
A well-respected art conservator at the Fogg Museum in Boston, George Stout began advocating for a national plan to protect art in the U.S., to be carried out by a corps of specially trained hands-on conservators. Stout had strong support from Paul Sachs, at the Fogg Museum and William G. Constable, curator of painting at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Over the next two years, Stout's plan grew in scope. He envisioned a conservation corps that would accompany military units in the field. They would identify European cultural sites that should be protected from Allied bombing, and document bomb damage at historical sites, buildings, and monuments across Europe. |