View of the Molo :: c.1730
Artist: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Italian
Repository: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX

Past Grants

We have chosen a representative sample of past grants to highlight the types of projects the Foundation supports and the typical amounts awarded. To see a comprehensive list of the grants and fellowships awarded in a single year, please see our Annual Reports.

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Grant Program	Grantees	Description	Amount
Conservation	American Academy in Rome	In ongoing support of the conservation and cataloging of the photographic archive at the American Academy in Rome.	30000	35250
Digital Resources	American Associates of the Royal Academy Trust	In support of the digitization and online publication of catalogs from the Royal Academy Winter Exhibitions, 1870-1913.	23400	35252
Digital Resources	French Regional and American Museum Exchange	In support of high resolution scanning of mourner sculptures associated with the exhibition, The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy.	25000	35254
Digital Resources	George Mason University	In support of a summit focused on the use of digital technology in art museum education.	42300	35256
Digital Resources	Smithsonian Institution	In support of the digitization of the Jacques Seligmann & Co. dealer archives.	100000	35258
Digital Resources	University of Virginia	In support of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities' development of a digital archive focused on Leonardo da Vinci and his treatise on painting.	165000	35260
History of Art	Art Institute of Chicago	In support of research on the AIC collection to be included in the Getty Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative.	10000	35236
History of Art	City University of New York	In support of Greek and Latin language study fellowships for art history graduate students.	10000	35238
History of Art	Middlebury College	In support of participation of art history graduate students in intensive summer language study.	46000	35240
History of Art	North Carolina Museum of Art	In support of the exhibition, Rembrandt in America.	65000	35242
History of Art	Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts	In support of a collaboration, Staging Old Masters: Former Prisoners Perform at the Pulitzer.	25000	35244
History of Art	University of Delaware	In support of the creation of technical reconstructions of Kress paintings to be used in didactic programs at Kress Collection Museums.	25000	35246
History of Art	Walters Art Museum	In support of the exhibition, Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe.	30000	35248

Past Grants

Only selected grants are shown per year on this page. To see a comprehensive list of grants given per year, please see our Annual Reports for those PDFs.

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Q: What are your deadlines for submission of an application?

A: Deadlines for History of Art and Conservation grants are January 15, April 15, and October 15. Applications for Digital Resources grants are due on April 15 and October 15 and applications for Responsive Grants are accepted at any time.

Q: My application is not appropriate for Kress support. Do you know of any other organization to which I can apply?

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Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family

Date: c.1580-85
Artist: Sofonisba Anguissola
Repository: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Sofonisba Anguissola (1528-1625) was active in Madrid and Genoa, and she spent her late years in Palermo. There van Dyck sketched her a year before her death and described her as spirited and interesting although nearly blind.

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