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Home>Research>Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts>Current Members>Former Members>Kress-Beinecke Professors

# Kress-Beinecke and Samuel H. Kress Professors

In addition to pursuing independent research, the Kress-Beinecke Professor is the senior member of the Center and counsels predoctoral fellows. 

The one-year Samuel H. Kress Professorship was established by the National Gallery, with the support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in 1965. From 2018 this appointment, newly endowed by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation in response to a challenge grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, became known as the Kress-Beinecke Professorship. 

2022–2023

**H. Perry Chapman**University of Delaware (emerita)*Rembrandt’s Art History*

2021–2022

**Lowery Stokes Sims**Museum of Arts and Design (emerita)*The Emergence of a New Black Art Canon*

2020–2021

**Dell Upton**University of California, Los Angeles*Graven Images: The Unsettled Lives of Public Monuments*

2019–2020

**Jeffrey F. Hamburger**Harvard University*Drawing Conclusions: Diagrams in the Middle Ages and Other Projects*

2018–2019

**Maryan W. Ainsworth**The Metropolitan Museum of Art*The Art of Discovery: Early Netherlandish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*

2017–2018

**Diane Favro**University of California, Los Angeles (emerita)*Constructing Victories: Arches as Celebrations of Roman Infrastructure*

2016–2017

**Dale Kinney**Bryn Mawr College (emerita)*Santa Maria in Trastevere: The Life of a Medieval Building in Early Modern Rome*

2015–2016

**Iain Boyd Whyte**University of Edinburgh*Survey and Anthology*****

2014–2015

**Robert S. Nelson**Yale University*Gifts of Presence: Itineraries of a Greek Manuscript from Constantinople to Florence and from the Middles Ages to the Enlightenment*

2013–2014

**S. Hollis Clayson**Northwestern University*Electric Paris: Episodes from the Visual Culture of the City of Light in the Era of Thomas Edison*****

2012–2013

**Oskar Bätschmann**University of Bern (emeritus)*Last Works*

2011–2012

**Julian Gardner**University of Warwick (emeritus)*What's in a Name? Giotto di Bondone*

2010–2011

**Joseph J. Rishel**Philadelphia Museum of Art

2009–2010

**Bert W. Meijer**Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence / Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus)

2008–2009

**John House**Courtauld Institute of Art

2007–2008

**Rudolf Preimesberger**Freie Universität Berlin (emeritus)

2006–2007

**Wanda M. Corn**Stanford University

2005–2006

**Annamaria Petrioli Tofani**Galleria degli Uffizi (emerita)

2004–2005

**Jonathan J. G. Alexander**Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

2003–2004

**Virginia Spate**University of Sydney

2002–2003

**Wolf-Dieter Dube**formerly Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

2001–2002

**Richard Ormond**formerly National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

2000–2001

**Juergen Schulz**Brown University (emeritus)

1999–2000

**Mina Gregori**Università di Firenze

1998–1999

**Ilene H. Forsyth**University of Michigan (emerita)

1997–1998

1997–1998**Bezalel Narkiss**Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1996–1997

**Hubert Damisch**École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

1995–1996

**David R. Coffin**Princeton University (emeritus)

1994–1995

**Jean Sutherland Boggs**formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1993–1994

**Anthony Radcliffe**Victoria and Albert Museum (emeritus)

1992–1993

**Anne Coffin Hanson**Yale University (emerita)

1991–1992

**John Coolidge**Harvard University (emeritus)

1990–1991

**Per Bjurström**Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

1989–1990

**Milton W. Brown**City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center

1988–1989

**Sylvie Béguin**Musée du Louvre

1987–1988

**Craig Hugh Smyth**Harvard University (emeritus)

1956–1987

**Lawrence Burnett Gowing**Royal Academy

1985–1986

**George Alexander Kubler**Yale University, emeritus

1984–1985

**Charles Mitchell**Bryn Mawr College, emeritus

1983–1984

**Philippe M. Verdier**Université de Montréal, emeritus

1982–1983

**Harold Edwin Wethey**University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, emeritus

Spring 1982

**Jean V. Bony**University of California – Berkeley, emeritus

Fall 1981

**Frank Edward Brown**formerly American Academy in Rome

1980–1981

**Leopold David Ettlinger**University of California – Berkeley

Spring 1980

**Otto Von Simson**Freie Universitiit, Berlin, emeritus

Fall 1979

**William Sebastian Heckscher**Duke University, emeritus

1978–1979

**George Heard Hamilton**Williams College, emeritus

1977–1978

**Agnes Mongan**Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, emerita

Spring 1977

**Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Fall 1976

**Wolfgang Lotz**Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome

1975–1976

**Francis J. B. Watson**Wallace Collection

1974–1975

**Ellis Kirkham Waterhouse**Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London

1973–1974

**Ary Bob De Vries**Mauritshuis, The Hague, emeritus

1972–1973

**Carl A. J. Nordenfalk**University of Cambridge

1971–1972

**William Chapin Seitz**University of Virginia

1970–1971

**Wolfgang Stechow**Cleveland Museum of Art

1969–1970

**Rudolf Wittkower**Columbia University, emeritus

1968–1969

**Egbert Haverkamp-Begeman**Yale University

1967–1968

**René Huyghe**College de France

1965–1966, 1966–1967

**Jakob Rosenberg**Harvard University, emeritus

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