Monuments Men
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Faison, S. Lane (Samson Lane), 1907-2006
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content: S. Lane Faison papers
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content: S. Lane Faison papers / Series 4: Subject Files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1970
label: Date
content: 1946-1959
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.faislane, Subseries 4.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: There are only two folders of papers documenting Faison's World War II work in the Art Looting Investigation Unit and related activities.   There are documents related to a controversy regarding the shipment to Washington, D.C. of 202 recovered paintings stolen by the Nazis from Berlin museums.  The shipment was protested by many prominent art historians, including Faison, who signed a petitition to stop the shipment.  The folder includes a press release about the controversy, a list of signers of the resolution, a section of a U.S. State Department bulletin about the return of the paintings, and a few news clippings.  The second folder in this subseries contains black and white photographs of what appears to be art looted from the Naples National Gallery by the Nazis for Hermann Göring's personal art collection.