Trusted Eye: Post–World War II Adventures of a Fearless Art Advocate by Claudia Fontaine Chidester (review).

They remained in Germany until 1970 (in 1953 Paul became art director for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes), when they decamped to retirement in Guadalajara, Mexico, where Virginia died of emphysema in 1991 at age seventy-five. A fascinating book, rich in archivalia, anecdotes, and insight, Trusted Eye documents the life and career of Virginia Fontaine (née Hammersmith, 1915-91), "one of the most important promotors of art among the members of the American occupation forces" in immediate post-World War II Germany (181). Male artists do feature prominently, though, in Fontaine's own words in two lengthy "reports" on 1947 car trips to Berlin and with Bekker vom Rath to Lake Constance (Bodensee) to visit artists and dealers. [Extracted from the article]