Edited by Elizabeth Pendleton Streicher, 1995

A Generous Vision celebrates the history of the Samuel H. Kress Professorship at the National Gallery of Art. It provides summary accounts of the 32 illustrious scholars who held the professorship through 1995 and lists predoctoral fellows in residence during their respective tenures. Concise memoirs written by former fellows record personal impressions and recollections testifying to the professors’ leadership and inspiration to the field. The Samuel H. Kress Foundation began a partnership with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, when it was established in 1979, as an extension of its support to the National Gallery of Art since 1965. An annual grant supports a Kress Professor, two senior fellows, and two predoctoral fellows, whose research projects focus on topics in the history of European art before the early 19th century.