Getty board’s newest members have art history
The J. Paul Getty Board of Trustees has elected three new members who bring with them a strong background in the arts.
The trio, announced Tuesday by board chairwoman Louise H. Bryson, are Frances Daly Fergusson, president emeritus of Vassar College, who holds master’s and doctoral degrees in art history from Harvard University and serves on the board of trustees for the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Noguchi Museum and the National Humanities Center; Paul LeClerc, president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library; and Neil Leon Rudenstine, former president of Harvard and chairman of the board of ARTstor, a nonprofit that provides digital resources for arts study.
Bryson said Tuesday that appointing the new board members represents the last in a series of goals she had set out last summer when she took over chairmanship of the scandal-plagued Getty Trust, then amid the state attorney general’s probe of the tax-exempt organization’s financial practices under former Getty Trust president Barry Munitz and former chairman John Biggs as well as settlements over possibly looted antiquities.
“I sort of set out four objectives, the most important of which was to find a new leader, which we did in Getty President Jim Wood,” Bryson said. “The second was to work with the attorney general, which we have, and the third was the antiquities -- we’re moving along well with Greece, and we hope to get there with Italy.
“Last but not least was to expand the board and bring in people with extensive backgrounds in the arts, and I think that’s what we’ve done.”
The members will begin their four-year terms July 1.
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