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J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2017 the Getty Center at Twenty on the Cover: the Getty Center, 2017 J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2017 The Getty Center at Twenty On the cover: The Getty Center, 2017. Photograph by Christopher Sprinkle J. Paul Getty Trust Report 2017 HAROLD M. WILLIAMS 1928–2017 PRESIDENT AND CEO, J. PAUL GETTY TRUST 1981–1998 We dedicate this annual report to the memory of Harold Williams, the founding president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, who passed away on July 30, 2017. Harold’s vision led to the creation of the Getty as a multifaceted institution devoted to scholarship, conservation, education, and the presentation of the visual arts. Harold also envisioned the Getty Center, home to the Getty’s four programs, now one of the most visited arts institutions in the United States. We are all deeply in his debt. Although he retired soon after the Getty Center opened in 1997, Harold maintained an office at the Getty Research Institute and showed a lively interest in the Getty’s work. He remained an active and respected member of the Getty community for the rest of his life, and we know that many of you worked with him and knew him well, and are doubtless feeling his loss. Harold was the first recipient of the Getty Medal Award in 2013, along with his wife Nancy Englander. As we move forward, we strive to fulfill the promise that Harold envisioned for the Getty. Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Chair James Cuno, President and CEO Table of Contents 2 Chair Message Maria Hummer-Tuttle, Chair, Board of Trustees 4 Foreword James Cuno, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust 8 The Getty Center at Twenty 9 The Humanities and Purpose in a Fractionated World Earl Lewis, President, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 15 Getty Conservation Institute Timothy P. Whalen, Director 27 Getty Foundation Deborah Marrow, Director 41 J. Paul Getty Museum Timothy Potts, Director 51 Getty Research Institute Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Director 61 Trust Report Lists 62 Getty Conservation Institute Projects 74 Getty Foundation Grants 86 Exhibitions and Acquisitions 112 Getty Guest Scholars 115 Getty Publications 120 Getty Councils 129 Honor Roll of Donors 135 Board of Trustees, Officers, and Directors 137 Financial Information Chair Message MARIA HUMMER-TUTTLE, CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES J. Paul Getty Trust THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL J. Paul Getty Trust Report In planning for this turnover, we appointed celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Getty four new trustees: Megan B. Chernin, who is deeply Center which opened to the public in December committed to the improvement of public education; 1997. Sadly, this year we also mourn the loss of Bruce W. Dunlevie, the founder and general partner of Harold Williams, whose vision gave birth to the Getty Benchmark Capital; Pamela J. Joyner, who has thirty Center, and to whom this report is dedicated. years of experience in the investment industry, and Harold Williams, the Getty’s founding president is recognized as one of the world’s most significant and CEO, passed away after a long illness in July collectors of modern and contemporary art by African 2017. Harold was an extraordinary individual whose American and African Diasporic artists; and Ronald S. leadership brought the Getty’s programs together at Lauder, business leader, patron of the arts, and former the Getty Center, strengthening the Getty’s reputation chairman of the Museum of Modern Art. We are as a global leader in art history, conservation, and delighted to welcome them. museum practice. He selected the site of the Center, In the past year we have had several new seeing it as “a place that will be community; that beginnings. The Getty Patron Program was launched, will build community.” Even after his retirement in offering individuals the opportunity to financially 1997, he maintained an active interest in the Getty, support Getty initiatives at various levels and thereby continuing to attend Getty events and keeping an “join” the Getty. This program expands our connection office at the Center for many years. Harold and his to the community in an additional way and provides wife Nancy’s many accomplishments were recognized enhanced programming. The Getty received significant in December 2013 when they received the inaugural gifts during the year, including support from Genesis J. Paul Getty Medal for their leadership in creating USA, which funded a new Museum education today’s Getty. initiative; major donations of photographs from As board chair, I am responsible for ensuring Bruce Berman and from Daniel Greenberg and Susan that the Getty has a strong board with solid expertise Steinhauser; and exhibition sponsorship from generous in scholarship, finance, the arts, and education, all donors Jeffrey Cunard, Jordan Schnitzer and family, of which are fundamental to what we do. As the year and others. ended, we said farewell to five outstanding trustees— The first Getty Rothschild Fellowship was given former board chair Mark S. Siegel, Joanne Kozberg, this year to Dr. David Saunders, an expert in the area of Stewart Resnick, William Siart, and Peter Taylor— conservation science. Awarded annually, this fellowship each of whom completed three four-year terms on the will nurture scholarship on subjects important to both board. Their valuable contributions during challenging the Getty and the Rothschild Foundation. as well as celebratory times were essential to the The Getty advanced its leadership in the field success the Getty enjoys today; the board extends its of digital technology with the appointment of Rich sincere appreciation for their service. Fagan as the Getty’s first vice president and chief digital officer. More than 30,000 images of objects in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection were made available using the International Image Interoperability Framework, which allows researchers to bring together images from different institutional websites for comparison, manipulation, and annotation. 2 Among our acquisitions this year, the Museum Finally, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (PST: LA/ purchased a group of sixteen master drawings by LA) launched after five years of preparation. Funded artists including Michelangelo, del Sarto, Rubens, by more than $16 million in grants from the Getty Goya, and Degas, and an iconic painting by Jean Foundation, and supported by a marketing campaign Antoine Watteau. The Arts Council England also generously funded by presenting sponsor Bank of issued the long-awaited export permit that allowed America, foundations, and individuals, PST: LA/LA the exquisite Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist (September 2017 to January 2018) offered more than and Mary Magdalene (c. 1535–40) by Parmigianino to eighty exhibitions, creating an unparalleled opportunity arrive and be placed on exhibit. The Research Institute to compare and contrast works by Latin American and added Frank Gehry’s archive to its collection, as well as Latino artists. In addition to a performance art festival, the archives of Käthe Kollwitz, Harmony Hammond, musical programming was presented at the Hollywood Miranda July, and others. Bowl and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Perhaps PST: Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper, severely damaged in LA/LA’s most important contribution is the legacy the 1966 Arno river flood in Florence, went on view of scholarship it will leave. The Getty is honored and once again, thanks to the Foundation’s Panel Paintings proud to have led this initiative. Initiative, which spearheaded its conservation. The The Getty’s contributions to the field of visual Conservation Institute announced that Historic arts have gained momentum since the programs were England would be the latest cultural heritage united at the Getty Center twenty years ago. None organization to implement its Arches software platform. of this would be possible without a strong leadership The Getty expanded its ability to engage team and a staff of talented individuals across the audiences in thoughtful dialogue about the arts with Getty to whom the board is most grateful. We shall the launch of the Getty podcast, hosted by J. Paul follow Harold Williams’s urging to continually Getty Trust President and CEO Jim Cuno. Thus far question whether we are doing what we do in the best Jim has produced over forty podcasts with guests such way—because, as he said, “There literally is no other as architect Frank Gehry, composer John Adams, and place in the world like the Getty.” photographer Chris Killip. Since it was established in 2013 by the trustees, the J. Paul Getty Medal has been awarded to six individuals to honor their extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding, and support of the arts. In the fall of 2016 the Getty Medal was given to Yo-Yo Ma, the great musician and leading ambassador for international cultural understanding, and posthumously to Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most important artists of his generation. During the fall of 2017 the medal was presented to German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, and to writer, politician, journalist, and professor Mario Vargas Llosa, recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. 3 Foreword JAMES CUNO, PRESIDENT AND CEO J. Paul Getty Trust IN HIS FINAL ANNUAL REPORT, on the eve of That was Harold, a big and bold thinker with a the Getty Center’s opening in 1997, Getty founding firm set of institutional principles, who also famously president and CEO Harold Williams wrote: said, “Anybody who tells me we should do something because we can afford it, I’ll fire them.” The completion of the Getty Center is not the Harold was ambitious, visionary, and fiscally end of a process, but the beginning. In the responsible. He conceived and built the Getty Trust decades ahead, the Getty must continually as a multifaceted institution dedicated to the arts and reexamine its role locally, nationally, and humanities. It was his vision to complement the J.
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