Harvard faculty and local citizens established the group after the fall of Paris in June 1940 in order to provide expertise on cultural matters during the war.

American and foreign scholars compiled information about cultural areas, monuments, and objects in Europe, and eventually their efforts contributed to the formation of the Roberts Commission.

Our research on each of the Monuments Men and women is now in its fifth year. For those names in bold, we have completed biographies, and in most instances have a photograph. However, our research continues on each of the other names for which we have varying degrees of information. In some instances, we have just a name. We appeal to the public for help in completing these biographies. Anyone with information, including photographs, should contact ehudson@monumentsmen.com.

Ames, Margaret Koehler, Wilhelm
Anastos, Milton V. Lehman-Hartleben, Karl
Belling, Alfred R. Luce, Stephen B.
Benesch, Mrs. Otto Malone, Mrs. Catherine
Benesch, Otto Murphy, Robert. C.
Berla, Julian E. Olschki, Leonardo
Blake, Marion E. Orchard, F.P.
Bloch, Hervert Pease, Murray
Broneer, Oscar Perry, Ralph Barton
Butler, Charles Randall-MacIver, D.
Chandler, H.D. Reed, Jean
Conant, Kenneth Robinson, Charles A,, Jr.
Constable, W.G. Robinson, David H.
Cook, W.W.S. Rosenberg, Jakob
Couch, Herbert N. Sachs, Paul Joseph
Duell, Prentice Sanborn, Ashton
Ehrlich, Evelyn Shear, Mrs. T. Leslie
Emerson, William Shear, T. Leslie
Grancsay, Stephen V. Shoe, Lucy T.
Harrison, W.H. Swarzenski, Georg
Hencken, Hugh O'Neill Talcott, Lucy
Hill, Dorothy K. Undset, Sigrid
Hill, Laurence Voorhees, Eleanor
Jackson, William A. Wildenstein, Georges
Kennedy, Clarence Young, William J.
Kitzinger, Ernst

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