art collector
Samuel Henry Kress.
American businessman and philanthropist (1863-1955), founder of the S. H. Kress & Co. five and ten cent store chain
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About Samuel Henry Kress
Samuel Henry Kress was a businessman, philanthropist, and 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.
Everything about Samuel Henry Kress →- Occupation
- art collector, teacher, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 23, 1863
- Died
- September 22, 1955