Albert Sheldon Pennoyer

Captain Albert Sheldon Pennoyer (April 5, 1888 – August 17, 1957) was a renowned American artist and member of the Monuments Men in World War II.

Early life and education Pennoyer was born in 1888 in Oakland, California to Albert Adams Pennoyer and Virginia Vanderbilt Geddes Edmunds. He then studied at the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Pennoyer initially went to college at the University of California, Berkeley, but was only there for one year before moving to Paris to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts. He later studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, the Académie Julian, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He studied throughout Europe and was mentored by various artists. where he worked to save art and was stationed in North Africa and Italy. The MFAA were also known as the Monuments Men.

The efforts of the Monuments Men were memorialized in photographs largely thanks to Pennoyer, using his Leica Camera. United States Military Academy, and the De Young Museum. His photographs are also in various galleries.

In 1957, Pennoyer went to Spain in preparation for a book, and on August 17, 1957, he was killed in a car accident in Madrid.

Publications

"This Was California" (1938) "Locomotives in Our Lives" (1954).