The Samuel H. Kress Collection in the Honolulu Academy of Arts

"The Samuel H. Kress Collection has long been recognized as one of America's most important privately owned collections of European art, especially in the province of Italian painting of the Renaissance ... From the point of view of the Academy itself, the extension of what has heretofore been a very limited representation of the art of the Italian Renaissance is of incalculable value."--Introduction, p. 5.