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For more detailed information about our collection please contact our Registrar

 

 Kress Collection 

Cleopatra by Giampietrino. ca. 1524
Madonna and Child by Andrea Sansovino. ca. 1500-1525.
Polyphemus and the Sea Nymphs by François Perrier. ca. 1620-1640
Judgement of Paris by Paolo Veronese. ca. 1548-1588
Portrait of a Lady by Bronzino, Agnolo (School of), ca. 1523-1572.

The Kress Collection Digital Archive documents the history and development of the Kress Collection of nearly 3,500 works of European art. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and initiated by the Gallery Archives, the project digitally reunites the collection amassed by Samuel H. Kress and his foundation, and then donated to nearly 100 art and educational institutions throughout the United States. Data and digitized archival materials illustrate the history, acquisition, condition and care, and distribution of the works of art over many decades. Containing more than 10,000 historical and conservation documents and images from the holdings of the Gallery Archives, the National Gallery of Art painting conservation department, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Archive, the resource emphasizes the relationships that exist between the objects, the people and institutions, and their histories.  

Contemporary Art 

Sex Toys for Flowers by Jonathon Keats, 2017, mixed media
Fear of a Black Kirby by John Jennings and Stacey Robinson, printed 2014, inkjet print on paper
They No. 3 by Hai Bo, 1998-2000, gelatin silver prints on paper
Knot III (horse armor) by Stephen Althouse, 2011, pigment print
Ten Blocks West by Chakaia Booker, 2005, rubber tires, wood

 Modern Art

Untitled by Louise Bourgeois, 1994, lift ground aquatint and drypoint with hand coloring in gouache.
Crescent Beach, St. Malo by Maurice Prendergast, 1907-1910, oil on panel
Target with Four Faces by Jasper Johns, 1968, lithograph on paper
The Aged King (Le Vieux Roi) by Pablo Picasso, 1959, lithograph on paper
Le Grand Inquisiteur Chasse le Sauveur (“The Grand Inquisitor Expels the Savior”) by Salvador Dali, 1974, hand colored drypoint etching on paper

Modern and Contemporary Photographs 

Paloma Picasso, Saint-Tropez 1973 by Helmut Newton, 1973, gelatin silver print on paper
Chinese Summerhall (Bamboo or Bottles) by Robert Rauschenberg, 1983, color photograph
Untitled (Male Nude) by Robert Mapplethorpe, 20th ce, color photogravure and silkscreen on paper
A Couple Ways of Doing Something: Self-Portrait of Chuck Close by Chuck Close, 2003, digitially printed daguerreotype on paper
Snapshot from my Window, Berlin by Alfred Stieglitz, 1907, photogravure on paper

 Historic Prints 

The Laughing Audience by William Hogarth, c. 1733, etching on paper
Frontispiece From: The Roman Heroes by Hendrik Goltzius, 1586, engraving on paper
Disparate General by Francisco Goya, 1815-1824, etching and burnished aquatint on paper
The Flagellation of Christ (from The Large Woodcut Passion) by Albrecht Dürer, 1497, woodcut on paper
Christ Healing the Sick (The Hundred Guilder Print) by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1606, etching and drypoint on paper

Japanese Art 

Untitled (scene from a Kabuki play) by Utagawa Kunisada. 19th ce, color woodcut on paper.
Ivory Study of a Monkey Trainer Netsuke. Artist Unknown. Ivory, 19th century.
Stag-antler Clam Dream Netsuke, artist unknown, Japanese, ca. 19th century
Tsuishu Four-Case Lacquer Inrō, artist unknown. Japanese.
Untitled (from the series “The Eight Heroes of Bakin’s Hakkenden”) by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japanese, 1852, color woodcut on paper

African Art 

Figure by the Bamana peoples. Africa (Mali), 20th century, wood.
Vessel by the Tutsi Peoples, Africa (Rwanda), 20th ce, clay
Vessel by the Songye Peoples, African (Tulela Village), early-mid 20th century, clay.
Beer Vessel by Zande peoples, African (The Democratic Republic of the Congo), early-mid 20th century, clay
D’mba by Baga peoples, African (Guinea-Bissau), 19th or early 20th century, wood

 Ancient World 

Ushabti. Egyptian. ca. 1279-1212 BCE.
Vase. Greek ca. 1100-900 BCE
Cylinder Seal of Heka-Nefer. Egyptian ca. 1550-1295 BCE.
Funerary Cone: Amunemhat the Scribe. Egyptian ca 1550-1295 BCE
Papyrus fragment. ca. 332-330 BCE

American Art

The Fence Mender by Thomas Hart Benton, 20th century, lithograph on paper
Tree Planting Group by Grant Wood, 1937. lithograph on paper
Old Putney Bridge by James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 19th ce, etching on paper.
Cherokee pot, artist unknown, ca. 1500.
Trees On A Hill by John Wesley Little, n.d., watercolor on paper

 

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416 Market Street
Lewisburg, PA 17837

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416 Market Street
Lewisburg, PA 17837
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