Fine Arts Scholar Dr. Edmund P. Pillsbury Joins Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers Of Dallas

Helped Build Kimbell Art Museum And Paul Mellon Collections

DALLAS, TEXAS - As part of its successful, continuing expansion in fine arts, Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers (www.HeritageGalleries.com) of Dallas, Texas has hired internationally-known scholar and former Yale University curator and 18 year Kimbell Art Museum Director, Edmund P. Pillsbury, Ph.D., as Senior Fine Arts Expert. Heritage also is adding 21,000 square feet of space to its existing 53,000 square feet galleries to house the firm's rapidly growing fine arts services.

"Dr. Pillsbury is one of America's foremost museum professionals who helped build the art collections of the renowned Kimbell as well as the Paul Mellon Collection of British Art and served as the founding director of the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art housing the Steve Wynn collection. He has an international reputation as a connoisseur, scholar, and arts administrator," said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage.

"His expertise will be a significant factor in Heritage's expansion in European and American paintings, art glass, ceramics and decorative arts."

Heritage is the third largest auction house in the United States with over $400 million in sales the past year in art, antiques, rare coins and currency, books and manuscripts, Americana, comics, sports, and Hollywood and entertainment memorabilia.. The addition of Dr. Pillsbury, 62, to Heritage's 250-member staff is expected to help significantly bolster the firm's growth in the fine arts field.

"Among his many outstanding accomplishments, Dr. Pillsbury is a member of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences," said Steve Ivy, Chief Executive Officer of Heritage.

In 1991 New York Times art critic John Russell characterized Dr. Pillsbury as "one of the most gifted men in the American museum profession."

A native of Minneapolis, he is the great-grandson of the founder of the Pillsbury Milling Company, today known to consumers as the Pillsbury bakery division of General Mills, Inc.

A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Pillsbury holds a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance Art from the University of London's Courtauld Institute of Art. His acclaimed former management positions include Director of the Yale Center for British Art and Chief Executive Officer of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. He served as Director of the Meadows Museum and Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and is currently a Research Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, a position he holds part-time.

For additional information, contact Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers, 3500 Maple Ave., 17th Floor, Dallas, Texas 75219. Phone: (800) 872-6467 or (214) 528-3500. Web: www.HeritageGalleries.com.