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...order "to prevent the introduction ... of inferior works of art." To assure a continuing high standard, he set up a self-perpetuating board of trustees which examines all gift horses with a dentist's doubtful eye. Since Mellon's death in 1937, vast bequests from Samuel Kress and Joseph Widener (old masters), Lessing Rosenwald (prints and drawings) and Chester Dale (old masters and modern French paintings) have swelled the collection. It now numbers 1,721 paintings, 1,696 sculptures (mostly small), 21,451 prints and drawings, 22,000 watercolor renderings and photographs of American art objects (made under...
...portrait opposite, which has been purchased by the Kress Foundation for Washington's National Gallery, proves the point. Napoleon stands plump and solemn in the white satiny knickers and gold epaulets of a general of the Chasseurs of his own Imperial Guard. He wears dangling on a red ribbon the medal of the Legion of Honor, which he himself instituted. Every detail of the picture shows David's utter and icy control of his medium; the whole shows something more-his red-hot hero worship. For all its artificiality of costume and scene, his picture gives Napoleon...
...Houston's Museum of Fine Arts held its first show of 36 Italian and Spanish paintings of the 15th to 18th century, a "permanent loan" from Collector Samuel H. Kress, 90, the dime-store tycoon (TIME, April 27). Among the best of Houston's windfall: a warm-hued Nativity and Adoration of the Shepherds by Titian and his brother Francesco, fascinating with its bright but strangely stormy sky; Goya's A Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten...
This week New Orleans will unveil its Kress gift: 31 paintings, spanning four centuries, from the Renaissance's 14th century dawn to the last flowering in the 18th century, and including such greats as Tintoretto, Bellini, Veronese. Two of the finest are Tiepolo's angelic 18th century Portrait of a Boy Holding a Book, with its ruddy flesh tones, velvety browns and yellows, and Pannini's The Pantheon and Other Monuments of Ancient Rome, whose picnickers, barking dog and proud, weed-grown ruins form a landscape as gently charming as anyone could wish. Among Houston...
...Manhattan, Collector Kress and the officers of his Kress Foundation could take pleasure in the fact that the first showing of their gift was New Orleans' biggest art event in 40 years. The museum has rebuilt three of its galleries, put in new lights, air-conditioned the entire building in anticipation. New Orleans citizens got reproductions of the new treasures on buses, in their gas and electric bills, and the museum expects to double its number of visitors next year. Said Alonzo Lansford, director of the Delgado Museum: "It was a heady experience . . . to be able to point...