PHILADELPHIA, PA.- Joseph J. Rishel, the Museum’s Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Painting Before 1900, the John G. Johnson Collection, and the Rodin Museum, has been appointed the Samuel H. Kress Professor at the National Gallery of Art for the 2010-2011 academic year, Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced. With this prestigious appointment, Mr. Rishel becomes the senior resident scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), which is located in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. CASVA was founded in 1979 to foster study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film, from prehistoric times to the present, through the formation of a community