Abstract:
Initiated by Robert Lee Humper of Greenville, legislators appropriated one million dollars to purchase an art collection to match a gift of paintings worth another million by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. These works of art now hang in the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Other art galleries established across the state include galleries in Charlotte, Asheville, Winston-Salem, Hickory, Greensboro, Greenville, and Fayetteville.