Obituary: Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, Museum Curator

Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III, a longtime senior curator and sometime acting director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, died November 27, according to The Boston Globe. He was 83.

Mr. Vermeule, who retired in 1996, oversaw the museum’s classical-art department for 40 years. “He was like an African griot — the elder in the village who keeps all the oral history and passes it generation to generation,” said Christine Kondoleon, the senior curator of Greek and Roman art at the MFA. “He carried the histories of these people.”

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