FEATURE
Art in Demand
By Todd Herman
Chief Curator and Curator of European Art
This fall, one of the most intriguing
paintings in the Museum’s collection,
François Boucher’s Joseph Presenting His
Father and Brothers to Pharaoh, will travel to
Allentown, Pennsylvania for the exhibition
Shared Treasure: The Legacy of Samuel Kress,
on view from October 14, 2011 - January
15, 2012 at the Allentown Art Museum.
Like our own Columbia Museum of Art,
the Allentown Art Museum counts among
its holdings a stellar collection of Old
Master paintings donated by Samuel H.
Kress and the Kress Foundation in the
1950s and 1960s. Not only was Allentown
the site of a Kress ?ve and dime store, but
the small city in southeast Pennsylvania
was the hometown of Samuel Kress. The
exhibition celebrates the generosity of this
hometown boy and the grand opening of
an 8,000 sq. ft. expansion of the museum.
Royal commissions, but it included a three
to ?ve year stay in Rome to study the
great works of art from ancient Rome to
the Renaissance. With the CMA painting
being identi?ed as Boucher’s winning entry
(at the tender age of 20), it earned instant
canonical status as the fulcrum around
which the early career of Boucher was
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