Barnes names new president
The financially troubled Barnes Foundation of Pennsylvania has named a new executive director and president. Derek Gillman -- president and chief executive officer and Edna S. Tuttleman director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts -- will assume his new post in October.
The British-born Gillman, 53, takes the reins of the institution in the wake of a controversial decision to move the Barnes Foundation’s multibillion-dollar collection of Impressionist, post-Impressionist and African art to a new gallery in downtown Philadelphia, relocating from the limestone gallery the late Dr. Albert Barnes built in the 1920s in Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion Township.
Gillman was educated at Oxford and also holds a master of laws degree from the University of East Anglia.
- Diane Haithman
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