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Kress, Samuel H. (American businessman, art collector, 1863-1955)
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Note: Originally a Pennsylvania schoolteacher, Samuel Kress opened a stationery and notions shop in 1887, which grew to a nationwide chain, S. H. Kress & Company. His art collecting, which started when he was in his fifties, emphasized painting and sculpture from Italy. In 1929 he established the Kress Foundation to sponsor traveling exhibitions, scholarships in art history, and restorations of monuments in Italy. Abandoning plans to open his own museum of Italian Renaissance art, Samuel Kress was the first to donate his collection in response to Andrew Mellon's call for contributions to create a national art museum. In 1939 Kress gave the newly established National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 375 paintings and 18 sculptures, valued at 25 million dollars; he later gave additional collections. |
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National Gallery of Art |
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(American art museum, Washington, DC, established 1937) [500115983] |
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Kress, Rush Harrison |
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(American businessman, patron, 1877-1963) [500356372] |
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(American businessman, art collector, 1863-1955) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American owner, contemporary) ..... [AVERY]
(American businessman, 1863-1955) ..... [Grove Art]
(American businessman and collector, 1863-1955) ..... [ARTstor]
(artist, 1863-1955) ..... [GRL]
(American owner) ..... [PROV]
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Subject: ........ | [ARTstor, AVERY, Gallery Systems, GRL, Grove Art, PROV, VP] |
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American National Biography [online] (2010)
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Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "S.H. Kress," accessed 9 November 2010
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Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr94024820
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Grove Art artist database (1989-)
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Historic preservation, 1993 Jan.-Feb., v.45, n.1 62
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Kress Foundation, The Kress Collection [online] (2002) accessed 9 November 2010
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Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr94024820 | | | | | | |
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