George Leslie Stout (1897–1978) was an American art conservation specialist and museum director who founded the first laboratory in the United States to study art conservation, as well as the first journal on the subject of art conservation. During World War II, he was a member of the U.S. Army unit devoted to recovering art, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section (MFAA), a.k.a. "The Monuments Men."
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5 October 1897 Winterset, Iowa
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Died |
1 July 1978 (aged 80) Santa Clara, California
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Zodiac | Libra |
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