Rescuing Normandie's Jean Dupas Panels, John Maxtone-Graham, Lecturer May 20, 2008

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

John Maxtone-Graham, writer and marine historian

Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt seized the ocean liner SS Normandie at Pier 88 in New York and had her converted into troopship Lafayette. Though she would ultimately burn and capsize, much of her interior decoration, sculpture, and furniture had been fortuitously removed before the tragedy. Among those precious works of art were 54 Jean Dupas eglomise panels from the ship’s Grand Salon. Noted historian John Maxtone-Graham documents their restoration and reinstallation at the Museum and cites the present-day status of other Normandie relics.

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