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Edith Appleton Standen

Photograph of Edith Standen, Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Office of Military Government, United States, 1946

Edith Standen (February 21, 1905 – July 17, 1998) was an American museum curator and military officer, best known as an expert on tapestries and as one of the "Monuments Men" who located and protected art works after World War II. (From Wikipedia)

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Books by Edith Appleton Standen:

Standen, Edith Appleton: European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2 volumes in 1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1985) (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org ("Read online" Google link only goes to volume 1))
Standen, Edith Appleton: Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Greenwich, CT: Dist. by the New York Graphic Society, 1970), also by Thomas M. Folds, contrib. by Claus Virch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Additional books by Edith Appleton Standen in the extended shelves:

Standen, Edith Appleton: Decorative art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the tapestry room from Croome Court, furniture, textiles, Sèvres porcelains, and other objects (Published by the Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; [distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.], 1964), also by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Carl Christian Dauterman, James Parker, and Samuel H. Kress Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)

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