WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART RECEIVES ELLSWORTH KELLY FOUNDATION GRANT

The Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been awarded one hundred thousand dollars from the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation for the conservation of its modern and contemporary art collection. According to a news release from the institution, the grant was given in memory of Kirk Varnedoe, a 1967 Williams graduate who went on to become a major art historian and educator and the chief curator of painting and sculpture at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art. Varnedoe died in 2003 at age fifty-seven; a fund has been created at Williams College to raise money for an endowed professorship in his name.