Edith Standen

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.

Her father Robert Hargreave Fraser Standen was a British Army officer, born in India.

[3] In 1928 Standen emigrated to the United States to work at the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, which was founded by her uncle, William Sumner Appleton.

That same year, she joined the Women's Army Corps,[5] and in 1945 was assigned to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program in Germany.

[6][7] Upon return to civilian life, Standen became associate curator of Textiles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.