Samuel Henry Kress
Organization founder
1863 – 1955
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Who was Samuel Henry Kress?
Samuel Henry Kress 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.
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- Born
- Jul 23, 1863
Cherryville, Pennsylvania - Also known as
- Samuel Kress
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Sep 22, 1955
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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