GRANTS OFFERED BY THE KRESS FOUNDATION

THE CARE AND PRESENTATION OF EUROPEAN ART

OLD MASTERS IN CONTEXT

Guidelines

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation invites grant applications for projects that illuminate the original context of European works of art from antiquity to the early nineteenth century in American collections. Please review these Guidelines before applying.

Basic components:
• Proposals focus on works of European art in American public collections (comparative materials from other venues are not excluded).
• Objects in the Kress Collection are of particular interest, but are not essential.
• Proposals engage professional participants from more than one institution.
• Proposals concentrate on the presentation of one or more works of art by elucidating the original context of the object(s) - i.e., who it was made for, where it was placed, how it was made, what it meant to its first viewers, etc.

Competitive grants are offered for two project phases:
• Planning grants of up to $ 10,000
• Implementation grants of up to $ 100,000

Application materials, to be submitted as one package:
• Three- to five-page description of the proposed project.
• Illustrations (color photocopies are acceptable).
• Checklist of works of art (if applicable).
• Resumes of the project's primary participants.
• A detailed budget.
• IRS determination letter for the organization that would receive and administer the grant.
• Self addressed, stamped postcard to acknowledge receipt of   application.

Deadlines:
• Applications received by January 15 will receive notification by June 1
• Applications received by July 15 will receive notification by December l