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...showplace was scheduled to open with a meager ratio of only 30 works to every acre of pink marble halls. But in 18 years of skillful piloting, Director Finley has steered into the National Gallery outstanding private collections owned by such millionaire art lovers as Samuel H. Kress, Chester Dale and Lessing J. Rosenwald, and has watched the collection swell to more than 1,200 paintings and 326 sculptures. Under Finley the gallery gained a place among the world's first-rank art museums...
...museum began putting its collection together in 1947, when North Carolina Oil Lawyer Robert Lee Humber persuaded the state legislature to appropriate $1,000,000 for the paintings. Spurred on by a promise of another $1,000,000 in paintings yet to come from the Kress Foundation, legislators later turned over a four-story building to house the collection, authorized another $341,000 for renovations. The museum hopes to keep growing with private donations, has already received such gifts as three 16th century tapestries from Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke, two British portraits by Raeburn and Hoppner from John Hay Whitney...
Today the bronzes are part of the fabulous collection left the gallery by one of its top benefactors, five-and-dime Millionaire Samuel H. Kress. He got them, along with many of his finest paintings and sculptures, from Joseph Duveen (later Lord Duveen of Millbank), Lucullan art dealer extraordinary to such U.S. millionaire clients as John D. Rockefeller Jr., Andrew Mellon, John Pierpont Morgan Jr., Henry Clay Frick. Duveen staggered the art world in Depression 1930 by buying up the whole Dreyfus collection for $5,000,000. Then, believing it sound business to upstage his millionaire clients, :he pounced...
...Long Parade. Late in life Kress developed an interest in great art and began to collect paintings on a modest scale...
Died. Samuel H. Kress, 92, founder and chairman (since 1924) of S. H. Kress & Co.. five-and-ten chain, famed artistic philanthropist; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...