John Krill
Senior Paper Conservator
and Adjunct Associate Professor
John Krill received an M. A. in Art History from Penn State and a diploma in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts of N.Y.U. He has worked at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1971-73 as Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings and as Paper Conservator, and has been Paper Conservator both at the National Gallery of Art, 1973-76, and the Winterthur Museum , beginning in 1976, where he is now employed. At Winterthur, he is responsible for both the care of the museum’s paper objects as well as the training of graduate students in paper conservation. Krill has served as guest curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1987) for the exhibition English Artists’ Paper: Renaissance to Regency; as guest lecturer in Durham, England at the 500 th Anniversary of papermaking in Great Britain in 1988; and helped plan the program for the 1999 international conference Looking at Paper: Evidence & Interpretation held in Toronto. He is co-organizer of the international group Training & Education in Paper Conservation which has met annually since 2003. Krill’s book, English Artists’ Paper, is in its second and revised edition (2002) published by Oak Knoll Press and the Winterthur Museum.
