Giovanni Antonio Canal (called Canaletto), Italian (Venetian), 1697-1768, View of the Molo, Venice, 1730. Oil on canvas. Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the in CMA 1954.
enhance the website over the next year
to highlight 68 Kress works. The Kress
Collection will be boldly featured as a
distinct collection within the category
of European art. Essays from the CMA’s
Kress-funded publication, European Art in
the Columbia Museum of Art (including the
Samuel H. Kress Collection), Volume I: The
Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Century,
are being added to the website with
existing high-resolution pictures. For those
works not included in this publication,
CMA Curator Victoria Cooke and other
key scholars will write essays to include
with photographs in the updated collection
pages of the Museum’s website.
By the time we are finished, all of the
major works from the CMA Kress
Collection will be accessible online to a
global audience via images and interpretive
text. Additionally, the CMA is creating an
interactive component that allows website
visitors to comment on Kress objects,
query the curators, or suggest new and
useful information to be added.
the accessibility of the collection to our
community and a global audience. This
exciting new project enhances the reach
of the Museum as a charitable nonprofit
organization dedicated to lifelong learning
and community enrichment for all.
These programs are made possible by the
Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
It is difficult to overstate how meaningful
the Kress Collection is in making the
Columbia Museum of Art an important
cultural destination in South Carolina and
an impressive international art museum.
We hope these new initiatives increase
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