The Kimbell Art Foundation has announced the resignation of Dr. Timothy Potts as director of the Kimbell Art Museum, effective September 1st, 2007. After this date, he will continue to support the museum as a consultant on selected projects, including the Kimbell-organized exhibition Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art, which opens in November.

Senior curator Malcolm Warner has been promoted to deputy director, and will assume the post of acting director of the Museum upon Dr. Potts’ departure.

Mrs. Ben J. Fortson, President of the Kimbell Art Foundation, commented, “It is with much regret that the Board of the Kimbell Art Foundation received Timothy’s resignation. He has added so much to the scholarly reputation and visibility of the Kimbell. His legacy will be one of magnificent acquisitions and extraordinary exhibitions—all upholding the high standard for excellence for which the Kimbell is known. We will all miss Timothy greatly and wish him the best.”

The works of art acquired during Dr. Potts’s tenure have included: 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.

Exhibitions under Dr. Potts’s directorship have included: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh; Gauguin and Impressionism; Stubbs and the Horse; Turner and Venice; Mondrian: The Path to Abstraction; as well as three upcoming exhibitions — The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso (opening in June); Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art (opening in November); and the first-ever major exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago’s unrivalled collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art (summer 2008).

Dr. Malcolm Warner has been senior curator at the Kimbell since 2002. Prior to joining the Kimbell, he was a research curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, curator of European art at the San Diego Museum of Art, and senior curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art. He received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Insitute of Art, University of London, and has curated many important exhibitions at museums around the world, including the 2004–2005 presentation of Stubbs and the Horse (Kimbell Art Museum; the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; National Gallery, London) and this year’s The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso (Kimbell Art Museum; Museo Thyssen Bornemisza, Madrid).