Lecture: "R.I.'s own Monuments Man"

Middletown, R.I.—St. George’s School, located at 372
Purgatory Road, will host a lecture featuring award-winning writer Lynn H.
Nicholas on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at 6:30 p.m. in Madeira Hall. Admission is
free but reservations are required.

Nicholas, the author of “The Rape of Europa - The Fate of
Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War” will discuss
the key role Rhode Island’s John Nicholas Brown played in the return of art
stolen by the Nazis.

Nicholas will share the story of Brown’s success in arguing
against using German art for war reparations and his involvement with the
return of such well-known masterpieces as Jan van Eyck’s “The Ghent Altarpiece”
and the “Altarpiece of Veit Stoss.”

Brown, who died in 1979, was a graduate and former trustee
of St. George’s School. He donated the school’s English Gothic-styled chapel
while he was pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard. During the war he held the
rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archive
program. Brown was awarded the Legion of Honor from France and named a member
of the Commander of the Order of Leopold in Belgium for his work as a Monuments
Man in Europe.

Nicholas’ visit—on the heels of the recent release of
George’s Clooney’s movie “The Monuments Men”—is sponsored by the Friends of the
St. George’s School Chapel.

For more information and to reserve a seat, please contact: Bill
Douglas, Director of Alumni/ae Relations, at 842-6730 or via email at
alumni@stgeorges.edu