Mitchell Art Prize

Thomas Kren, curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, has won the most prestigious award given to art historians, the Eric Mitchell Prize. Kren shares the 2004 Mitchell Prize with Scot McKendrick, his counterpart at the British Library, for their collaboration on "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe," The Prize recognizes the exhibition catalog, a gloriously illustrated volume of nearly 600 pages that tells more about its subject than any other source. Irish Art