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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:29:12 -0500
From: Judy Dyki <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [ARLIS-L] Max Marmor Named President of Kress Foundation
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February 12, 2007
For Immediate Release

Frederick W. Beinecke, Chairman of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation,
announced today that Max Marmor has been named President of the
Foundation. Mr. Marmor succeeds Dr. Marilyn Perry, who became the Kress
Foundation's President in 1984 after serving two years as Executive Vice
President. The seventy-eight year old Foundation devotes its resources
to the scholarship, conservation, and interpretation of European art and
architecture from antiquity through the early nineteenth century.

Mr. Marmor, whose tenure at the Kress Foundation will begin this summer,
has been, since its inception, the Director of Collection Development at
ARTstor, a digital initiative launched in 2001 by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. Mr. Marmor has worked closely with museums, universities,
and archives to develop projects for ARTstor resulting in greatly
expanded educational and scholarly access to digital images of
significant works of art and architecture. Mr. Marmor and ARTstor have
been working with the Kress Foundation for the past two years on the
implementation of a project to place all works of art from the Kress
Collection and a rich body of archival information and conservation
history related to these works in the ARTstor digital library. The
Foundation looks forward to the completion of this project, which is
consistent with the Foundation's long history of grants and
collaborative initiatives intended to provide access to scholarly
materials. Mr. Marmor will continue to serve as a Senior Advisor to
ARTstor.

Prior to his joining ARTstor, Mr. Marmor served for seven years as
Director of Yale University's Arts Library, which included the Classics
and Drama Libraries, the Visual Resources Collection, and the Arts of
the Book Collection. As an art librarian he had previously been
associated with the Art Library at UCLA, where he was in charge of the
Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana and the west coast branch of the
Princeton Index of Christian Art; with the Avery Architectural and Fine
Arts Library at Columbia University; and with the Institute of Fine Arts
Library at New York University. Trained in Italian Renaissance studies,
he worked closely with the distinguished Leonardo da Vinci scholar,
Carlo Pedretti, and served on the advisory board of the journal
Achademia Leonardi Vinci; he has himself published on Leonardo and other
topics in Italian Renaissance art. Mr. Marmor is the co-editor of the
standard Guide to the Literature of Art History, and is active as
editor, scholar and translator in the field of the literature and
historiography of art. He serves on the Advisory Board of Grove Art
Online and speaks and writes frequently on the relationship between art
history and emerging technologies. Mr. Marmor brings to the Foundation
a strong commitment to the field of art history, a broad knowledge of
its institutions and needs, and unique experience with the development
and deployment of services to the profession.

Dr. Perry's presidency of the Foundation began approximately twenty
years after the art history, art conservation, and preservation grant
and fellowship programs had been formally established. Her leadership
has been distinguished by the development and expansion of the existing
programs and the redirection of them into "The Art of Europe in Context"
program. Dr. Perry's vision has advanced the Foundation's mission to
support research and preservation activities focused on European
artistic heritage and to provide advanced training opportunities for art
historians, art conservators, and preservationists pursuing academic and
professional development in their respective disciplines.

About the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1929 and has been distinguished for
its leadership in presenting European art to American audiences and for
its concern for the conservation of and access to scholarly resources.
Since 1929 the Foundation has granted $130,000,000 to support projects
in art history, art conservation, and architectural preservation. The
Kress Collection of more than 3,000 works of European art is shared by
more than fifty American museums, universities, and colleges. The
Foundation is a leading American donor to the preservation of European
architectural heritage. More than 4,500 Kress Fellows have received
support in preparing for careers in art history and art conservation.
The Foundation's Annual Report is available on its website,
www.kressfoundation.org.

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