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29.06.2010
J. PAUL GETTY TRUST PRESIDENT AND CEO JAMES N. WOOD DIES AT 69
Mark Siegel, who chairs the Getty´s board of trustees, said in a statement Saturday, June 12 that Woods died unexpectedly of natural causes. He was found in his Los Angeles home late Friday.
Wood served as director and president of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1980-2004, after which he retired with his wife Emese to Rhode Island before his appointment as President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust in December 2006. He assumed his position as CEO in February 2007, after an extensive search conducted by the Board of Trustees.
Prior to directing the Art Institute of Chicago, Wood was the director of The St. Louis Art Museum (1975-1980), an adjunct professor of art history at SUNY at Buffalo and associate director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. He also held positions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Wood sat on the boards of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, the Harvard University Art Museums, and the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. He was also president of the board of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Deborah Marrow has been selected as the interim replacement director and CEO. This is the second time that Marrow has held the positions, having served between 2006 and 2007, when the board was considering a replacement for Barry Munitz, who was forced to resign following an investigation into financial malfeasance at the trust.
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