Art Treasures For America An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection

Published by Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Prefaces by John Walker, Guy Emerson.

One of the most important art collections in America, which contains over a thousand paintings and sculptures by masters from Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Samuel Henry Kress (July 23, 1863September 22, 1955) was a businessman and philanthropist, founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain. With his fortune, Kress amassed one of the most significant collections of Italian Renaissance and European artwork assembled in the 20th century. In the 1950s and 1960s, a foundation established by Kress would donate 776 works of art from the Kress collection to 18 regional art museums in the United States. 100 colour plates and 87 black and white plates.

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Autore/i Charles Seymour Jr.
Editore Phaidon Press Luogo London
Anno 1961 Pagine XXII - 220
Dimensioni 24x32 (cm) Illustrazioni 187 ill. a colori e b/n n.t. - colors and b/w ills
Legatura cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione usato buone condizioni - used good
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 2000 (gr)
ISBN N/D - N/A EAN-13 N/D - N/A