Art for Embassies -- Selected from the Woodward Foundation Collection; an exhibition organized by the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 30 September - 5 November 1967

Millard, Charles W. ; Henry Geldzahler

Published by Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C., 1967

About this Item

24 pages; Clean and secure in original stiff pictorial wrappers. Measures 12.5" X 5" ( 31cm x 14 cm) Five color and five b&w reproductions. Foreword by Charles W. Millard. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. OCLC 160372 Examines the works by American artists assembled by the Woodward Foundation for loan to the residences of American ambassadors abroad. Provenance: From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into the huge Nazi hoards during the war. [The "Monuments Men"] Munsing later joined the U.S. Department of State during the later 1940's and '50's, where he established the State Department's Amerika Haus programs in Munich and Berlin and organized exhibitions and cultural programs in Germany and Austria. In 1955, he was named cultural officer at the American Embassy in London, where he staged exhibitions of such New York artists as Philip Pavia, Paul Jenkins and Ben Shahn and became an important force in the London art world. Munsing returned to the U.S. in the 1960's and 70's where he helped establish the contemporary art collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Washington (now the National Museum of American Art) and headed the State Department's Art in Embassies program. In retirement from the State Department after 1976, Mr. Munsing was a consultant to the American Association of Museums.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Art for Embassies -- Selected from the Woodward Foundation Collection; an exhibition organized by the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 30 September - 5 November 1967
• Publisher: Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C.
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art and Art History
  • Political Science