KRESS BROTHERS LECTURE WILL BE OCT. 11 AT ALLENTOWN MUSEUM

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ALLENTOWN, PENN. — The Allentown Art Museum will present a free lecture, “American Medici: The Kress Brothers,” on Thursday, October 11, from 7 to 8 pm, given by Jocelyn Kress.

Kress, niece of Samuel H. Kress and daughter of Rush H. Kress, will offer personal reminiscences on the Kress family fortune, Samuel Kress’s architectural patronage and the creation and eventual dispersal of the Samuel H. Kress collection of European paintings, including a significant gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1960.

Kress will focus on works of art specific to the museum’s collection, touching on the many decisions, selections and other criteria that went into building one of the Kress Foundation’s most important regional collections. Kress spent her childhood living with many of these paintings, and her insights about the collection will illuminate one of America’s most important philanthropies.

Kress has spoken internationally at some of the world’s premier venues including Versailles, the Wallace Collection in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The Allentown Art Museum is at 31 North Fifth Street. A reception will immediately follow. Registration for the lecture recommended, call 610-432-4333, extension 10 or www.allentownartmuseum.org.