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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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