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. __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask]