Harold_Woodbury_Parsons

Harold Woodbury Parsons

Harold Woodbury Parsons

American art historian and dealer

Harold Woodbury Parsons (July 13, 1882[1][2][3] – May 27, 1967) was an American art historian and dealer from Lynn, Massachusetts. In 1930 he was brought in as art advisor to the Nelson-Atkins Museum.[4] In 1960, he was instrumental in exposing certain supposed Etruscan masterpieces as fakes.[5][6][7][8]

Capt. Harold W. Parsons, of Boston, American Red Cross

Parsons died in Rome, aged 85, of myocardiosclerosis and heart failure. His ashes were interred at Campo Verano.[9]

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    U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925
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    U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
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    U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
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    "The Collecting of French Paintings in Kansas City". Archived from the original on 2023-02-06.
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    Paul Craddock (4 February 2009). Scientific Investigation of Copies, Fakes and Forgeries. Taylor & Francis. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-136-43601-7.
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    Kadoi, Yuka (2016). Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art. BRILL. p. 219. ISBN 9789004309906.
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    Karman, James (2011). The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume Two, 1931–1939. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804781725.
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    Perlman, Bennard B. (2012). American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958. SUNY. p. 124. ISBN 9780791489086.
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    Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974
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