Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which opened in 1924, distinguishes itself as the only public art museum in Texas. Its collection of Western European art from the late Medieval and Renaissance periods is particularly strong, with more than one hundred works of art. The museum's holdings from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries offer a valuable cross-section of a critical period in art history. The core of the Renaissance collection is the 1944 bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Percy S. Straus, augmented by donations from Samuel H. Kress.