Charles Franklin Montgomery (April 14, 1910 – February 21, 1978),[1] was an American curator, art historian, scholar, educator, and museum director.
After continuing to work at the museum as a senior research fellow, he was a curator and art historian at Yale University from 1970 until his death.
After receiving his BA degree from Harvard University in 1932, Montgomery worked for the Herald Tribune, purchased and unsuccessfully attempted to cultivate an orchard in Wallingford, Connecticut, and began collecting and selling antiques.
[13] Montgomery and his first wife, Evelyn Reed, spent the better part of a decade in Connecticut, attempting with little success to run an orchard.
Montgomery died of a heart attack shortly after collapsing in a Yale University classroom.