Timothy Potts Explained

Dr. Timothy Potts
Office1:Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum
Term Start1:1 September 2012
Predecessor1:James Cuno (acting)
Office2:Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Term Start2:2007
Term End2:2012
Predecessor2:Duncan Robinson
Successor2:Tim Knox
Office3:Director of the Kimbell Art Museum
Term Start3:1998
Term End3:2007
Predecessor3:Edmund P. Pillsbury
Successor3:Eric McCauley Lee
Office4:Director of the National Gallery of Victoria
Term Start4:1994
Term End4:1998
Predecessor4:James Mollison
Successor4:Gerard Vaughan
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Nationality:Australian
Alma Mater:University of Sydney
University of Oxford
Residence:Los Angeles, California
Occupation:Art historian, archaeologist, museum director

Dr. Timothy Potts is an Australian art historian, archaeologist, and museum director. He became the director of the J. Paul Getty Museum on 1 September 2012.[1]

Biography

Timothy Potts was educated at the University of Sydney (BA Hons) and holds a DPhil in Near Eastern art and archaeology from the University of Oxford, where he was a research lecturer and British Academy Research Fellow in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art at Christ Church, Oxford (1985–90).[2] His research interests are Ancient Near Eastern art history, archaeology and history; museology; the classical tradition in western art.

Dr. Potts acted as co-director of the University of Sydney excavations at Pella, Jordan from 1982 to 1989. He worked at Lehman Brothers in New York from 1990 to 1994, after which he became director of the National Gallery of Victoria (1994–1998). In conjunction with his directorship at the National Gallery of Victoria, Timothy was an adjunct professor at La Trobe University, and a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. He was the director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas from 1998 to 2007 and the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England from 2007 to 2012.

Writing

Dr. Potts is a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean on which he has written widely. His works in the field include:

Past Directorships

In 2007, Duncan Robinson (now CBE) retired, Potts took over as the Fitzwilliam Museum's 12th Director.[8] During his time at the Fitzwilliam (2007–12), Potts served as Chairman of the Art Committee, with Mr Donald Hearn as Bursar, at Clare College, Cambridge[9] Dr. Potts also directed studies in the History of Art for Clare College.Between his academic and museum positions, Potts had a corporate career with Lehman Brothers where he was Senior Vice President of the Media and Communications Group, Investment Banking Department, (New York and London) from 1990 to 1994.

During Dr. Potts' tenure as director of the Kimbell Art Museum he added many pieces of art to the Kimbell's permanent collection: in sculpture, St John the Baptist by Michelozzo, Virgin and Child by Donatello, Relief Head of Christ attributed to Tullio Lombardo, Isabella d’Este by Gian Cristoforo Romano, Late Gothic Silver-Gilt Virgin and Child (anonymous), and Modello for the Fountain of the Moor by Bernini; in paintings, The Judgment of Paris by Lucas Cranach the Elder, and A Dentist by Candlelight by Gerrit Dou; in antiquities, Head of an Athlete (Apoxyomenos) after Lysippos, and The Death of Pentheus by Douris; in Precolumbian art, 5th-century Maya Jade Belt Ornament, and Codex-Style Cup showing Scribal Training by the "Princeton Painter"; and in Asian art, Bamboo and Rocks by Tan Zhirui.[10]

Exhibitions at The Kimbell Art Museum under Dr. Potts’s directorship included:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr. Timothy Potts Named Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. 3 December 2012.
  2. Web site: New Director Dr Timothy Potts. 16 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110612032238/http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/news/latest/article.html?1106. 12 June 2011.
  3. Book: Potts, Timothy F. . Civilization British Museum Ancient Trea . British Museum Press . January 1990 . 0-642-13041-8.
  4. Book: Potts, Timothy F. . Kimbell Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection. Kimbell Art Museum. September 2003. 0-300-10181-3 .
  5. Book: Potts, Timothy F. . From Renoir to Picasso : Masterpices from the Musee de L'Orangerie. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts . November 2000. 0-912804-36-X.
  6. Book: Potts, Timothy F. . Mesopotamia & the East: An Archaeological & Historical Study of Foreign Relations 3400-2000 Bc. (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph Ser No. 37.). Oxford University Press. April 1995. 0947816372.
  7. Book: Potts, Timothy F. . Claudio Veliz . Post-modernisms: Origins, Consequences, Reconsiderations. Boston university. October 2002. 0-87270-127-1.
  8. http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007060103 Announcement of Dr. Potts as Fitzwilliam's new director
  9. Web site: Academic Life @ Clare. 17 August 2010.
  10. Web site: Dr. Timothy Potts to Resign as Director of the Kimbell Art Museum as of September 1, 2007. 16 August 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110629125023/https://www.kimbellart.org/News/News-Article.aspx?nid=84. 29 June 2011.
  11. Web site: Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art. 16 August 2010.
  12. Web site: Drama and Desire Japanese Paintings from the Floating World, 1690-1850. 16 August 2010.
  13. Web site: Past Exhibitions. 16 August 2010.
  14. Web site: Masterpiece: A New Look at the Kimbell Collection. 16 August 2010.
  15. Web site: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. 8 August 2010.
  16. Web site: Gauguin and Impressionism. 8 August 2010.
  17. Web site: Palace & Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum. 8 August 2010.
  18. Web site: Turner and Venice. 8 August 2010.
  19. Web site: Genius of the French Rococo: The Drawings of François Boucher (1703-1770) and Boucher's Mythological Paintings:The Last Great Series Reunited. 8 August 2010.
  20. Web site: Caravaggio to Dali: 100 Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. 8 August 2010.
  21. Web site: Stubbs & The Horse. 8 August 2010.
  22. Web site: Modigliani & The Artists of Montparnasse. 8 August 2010.
  23. Web site: The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. 8 August 2010.
  24. Web site: Painted Prayers: Medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours from the Morgan Library. 8 August 2010.
  25. Web site: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo 1617-1682. 8 August 2010.
  26. Web site: Mondrian: The Path to Abstraction 1892-1914. 8 August 2010.
  27. Web site: The Design and Construction of the Kimbell Art Museum: A 30th-Anniversary Exhibition. 8 August 2010.
  28. Web site: The Floral Art of Pierre-Joseph Redouté . 8 August 2010.
  29. Web site: European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. 1 August 2016.
  30. Web site: Treasures From A Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan. 1 August 2016.
  31. Web site: Worlds of Transformation: Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion. 1 August 2016.
  32. Web site: Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist. 1 August 2016.
  33. Web site: Straganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family. 1 August 2016.
  34. Web site: From Renoir to Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie. 1 August 2016.
  35. Web site: Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. 1 August 2016.
  36. Web site: Matisse & Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry. 1 August 2016.

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