Art Historian and Museum Director Charles Parkhurst Dead at 95

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AMHERST, Mass.—Charles Parkhurst, art museum director and member of the "monuments men," an international Allied Forces team that tracked down looted art after World War II, died on June 26 at the age of 95. Parkhurst started his career as an art historian and assistant curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., before joining the Navy and becoming deputy chief of the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives commission at the end of WWII. After the war, he served in a number of positions at various museums and universities, including director of the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1962 to 1970 and assistant director and chief curator of the National Gallery from 1970 to 1983.  Parkhurst was also the president of the American Association of Museums from 1966 to 1968.