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STATE OF THE ARTS: El Paso Museum of Art Kress Collection

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Workshop of Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi (called Sandro Botticelli), Italian (Florentine), 1444 or 1445–1510, Madonna and Child, 1490s, tempera on wood panel. Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the El Paso Museum of Art.

The El Paso Museum of Art will unveil the newly renovated galleries of the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European Art on Friday, May 11, 2018. This is the first time that the Kress Collection has been comprehensively reinterpreted and reinstalled since the Museum moved to its current downtown location in 1998. 

All three galleries will now exhibit the museum of art’s European masterworks according to theme, offering visitors a fresh perspective on the most iconic subjects in the history of western art. Here to talk about the Kress collection are Senior Curator, Dr. Patrick Cable and Kress Interprative Fellow, Elizabeth Dwyer.

Originally Broadcast on April 28, 2018

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