Edmund Pennington Pillsbury Jr

Edmund Pennington Pillsbury Jr., known as Ted, was born in Minneapolis on April 28, 1943. His great-grandfather Charles Alfred Pillsbury founded the Pillsbury Milling Company, now a division of General Mills. On his mother's side, he was descended from John Deere, the maker of agricultural equipment. Mr. Pillsbury earned a bachelor's degree in art history from Yale in 1965, followed by master's and doctoral degrees from the Courtauld Institute of Art, part of the University of London. As the director of the Yale center from 1976 to 1980, Mr. Pillsbury oversaw the completion of its building, also designed by Mr. Kahn, and secured works by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough and others. Mr. Pillsbury is survived by his wife, the former Mireille Bernard; two children, Christine and Edmund III; his mother, Priscilla Giesen; two sisters, Priscilla Gaines and Joan DePree; and two grandchildren. After leaving the Kimbell in 1998, Mr. Pillsbury was a partner in Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, a Dallas gallery, and later directed the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. He was also briefly a consultant to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art at the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.