Evening star., 1946-01-26
New Kress Gift Of ITO
Masterpieces Of ART
10 Go on Display

"A GIT OF ITO art masterpieces win
be added to the Samuel H. Kress
collection and displayed for the first
time at the National Gallery of Art
next Saturday, David e. Finley, di-
rector Of the gallery, announced
today.
The third group of paintings and
sculpture donated to the gallery by
Mr.. Kress and the Samuel II.
Kress Foundation, includes works OF
Botticeli, Titan, Della Robbia,
Filippo Lippi, Francois Boucher and
Antoine Watteau.
Diplomats, members of Congress
and society and art leaders have
been invited to formal opening of
the new galleries at $50 pm. next
Saturday. The Gallery also has pub
lished a special catalogue contain
ing reproductions of 200 selections
from more than 800 now comprising
the Kress collection.
The new acquisitions range in
date from about 1900 AID. to the be-
ginning of the 10Th century. There
are 81 paintings and seven pieces of
sculpture of the Italian schools, Is
paintings of the French school and
three pieces of sculpture of the
English and German schools.
From Private Collections,
When the gallery was opened in
March, 1941, Mr.. Kress presented
375 paintings and Is pieces of sculp-
ture. His second gift, in October.
1914, included II paintings and 26
pieces of sculpture. He gathered
his latest donations from some of
the best-known private collections
OF Europe and America, Mr.. Finley
said.
Some OF these art works, donated BY
Mr.. Kress in 1914, will be displayed
for the first time when the new
galleries are opened. John Walker.
chief curator of the National Gallery,
said recent completion of six new
galleries provides space to show them
for the first time.
Some of the 1914 donations had to
be stored until workers could be OBJ
tained to complete the new galleries.
Now President of Gallery.
Mr.. Kress. president of the gallery
since last March, founded the S. H.
Kress Co. 5-10-25-cent store chain.
Starting out at the age of II as a
SIS month school teacher in Penn
sylvania, he opened his first '.five
and ten" at Memphis, Tenn, in 1896.
AS his stores spread from the East
to the West Coast, Mr.. Kress, a
bachelor, started his art collection.
His first philanthropy was the res
toration of Roman architecture. for
which he was decorated by the
Italian government.
Italian Paintings.
Among the Italian paintings to
be displayed for the first time are:
Fra Angelica. The Healing of Pal
ladia by Saint Cosmas and Saint
Damian"; Alesso Baldovinetti, The
Annunciation";; Giovanni Baronzio,
Madonna and Child with Angels:
Benedetto Bonigli, Madonna and
Child Enthroned";; Botticelli,
Alteration of the Child" and Ma
donna and Child with Angels:
Francesca del Cossa, The Cruel
fixion";; Carlo Crievelli, Madonna
and Child Enthroned with Donor;
Domenico Veneziano, Saint John in
the Desert; Dosso Dossi, 'Circe and
Her Livers in a Landscape; DOM
enico Feti, "The Veil of Veronica"
Francesca di Giorgio, God the
Father Surrounded by Angels and
'Cherubim" and Madonna ard Child
with Angels; Francesca Guardi,
Seaport and Classic Ruins III Italy:
Fra Filippo Lippi. Madonna and
Child Enthroned" and Saint Bene-
dict Orders Saint Maurus to the
Rescue of Saint Placidus"; Ambrogio
Lorenzetti, Madonna and Child:
Bernardino Luini, Nine Frescoes
Depicting the Legend of Cephalus
and Procris from the Villa Pelucca.
near Monza"; Margaritone, Ma
donna and Child Enthroned"::
Neroccio de- Landi, Madonna and
Child with Saints; Giovanni Paolo
Panini, THE Pantheon and Other
monuments of Ancient Rome"
Piero della Francesca, Saint Apol-
lonia"; Pintoricchio, Madonna and
Child; Sassetta, Saint Anthony
Distributing His Wealth to the Poor"
and Saint Anthony Leaving His
Monastery; Luca Signorclli, "Eu-
nastos of Tanagra"; Jacopo Tin
toretto, Christ at the Sea of Cali
lee; Titan, Cardinal Pietro
Bembo"; Cosimo Tura, Madonna and
Child in Garden"
French Paintings.
| The French paintings In the
new exhibition: Francois Boucher,
Madame Bergeret," "Allegory of
Painting" and "Allegory of Music;
Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin,
Portrait of an Old Woman; Fran
cois-Hubert Drpuais, Group Por-
trait; Jeon- -Hofore Fragonard, "The
Visit to the Nursery" "A Game of
Hot Cookies" and "a Game of Horse
and Rider; Jean-Baptiste Greuze,
Monsieur de la Live de JULY; jean
IAuguSte-Dominique Ingres, Madame
Moitessier.
Louis LIE Main, Landscape With
Peasants; Claude Lorrain, THE
Herdsman";; Jean-Marc Natter,
Madame de Caumartin as Hebe";;
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Pater, "Fete
Champetre"; Nicolas Poussin, "The
Baptism of Christ; Hyacinthe Ri
gaud, President Hebert";; Elisabeth
IVigee-Lebrun, "Marquise de La
borde';; Antoine Watteau, italian
Comedians" and Sylvia"
The sculpture in the new exhi.
bition:
Benedetto da Maiano, Madonna
and Child; Desiderio da Settignano,
Bust of the Holy Child; English
school, late 18th century, THE Holy
Trinity; English school, early 18th
century. Saint George and the
Dragon; Lorenzo Ghiberti, "Madon-
ma and Child; Michelozzo, "Madon-
ma With the Sleeping Child; Jacopo
della Quercia, Madonna and Child;
Tilman Riemenschneider, Saint
Burchard of Wurzburg"; Luca della
Robbia, "The Nativity; Tino di
Camaino, Madonna and Child With
Queen Sancia, Saints and Angels;