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Mary Shay Millea
Mary Shay Millea completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Art and Art History at the University of Colorado and is currently a doctoral candidate in Art History at Rutgers University focusing on Italian Renaissance portraiture and illuminated manuscripts.  Prior to beginning her doctoral work, Ms. Shay Millea was a Vice President at Christie’s in New York.  She has also worked for the Denver Art Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and taught Art History at Rutgers. Ms. Shay Millea is currently a Kress Fellow and she will begin a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum in September of 2008.  
 
Ms. Shay Millea specializes in Italian Renaissance drawings, paintings, illustrated books, and sculpture as well as German, Austrian, and Swiss drawings from the 15th to the 19th centuries.  She has worked for both international and regional auction houses and museums in addition to cataloguing the permanent collection of Northern drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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