About Harold Woodbury Parsons
Lived 1882 – 1967 (aged 84). Harold Woodbury Parsons was an art dealer and art historian.
Harold Woodbury Parsons (July 13, 1882 – 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. In 1960, he was instrumental in exposing certain supposed Etruscan masterpieces as fakes.
Parsons died in Rome, aged 85, of myocardiosclerosis and heart failure. His ashes were interred at Campo Verano.
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Who was Harold Woodbury Parsons?
American art historian and dealer (1882-1967)
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Harold Woodbury Parsons was born on 13 July 1882 in Lynn.
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Harold Woodbury Parsons died on 27 May 1967 in Rome.
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Harold Woodbury Parsons was an art dealer and art historian.
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