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Henry Clay Frick was a coke and steel magnate. [4] [5] As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in Broadford, Pennsylvania. [6]Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's In the Louvre, in 1880, [7] after moving to Pittsburgh. [6]
The Frick Art Research Library (formerly known as the Frick Art Reference Library) is the art library of The Frick Collection, located in New York City.The library, founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick, offers access to materials on the study of art to students, scholars, and the public.
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
The Frick Art Research Library’s Photoarchive in New York is a study collection of more than 1.5 million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. It was founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick to facilitate object-oriented research. Alongside the reproductions, the extensive documentation it offers ...
Henry Clay Frick [88] 1943 oil on canvas Gerald Kelly: 1879–1972 Portrait of Henry Clay Frick [89] 1924 oil on canvas Jacques de Lajoue, attributed 1687–1761 Seven Decorative Panels [90] c. 1730–1740 oil on canvas Georges de La Tour, studio of 1593–1652 The Education of the Virgin [91] c. 1650 oil on canvas Thomas Lawrence: 1769–1830
Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has commented on Wardropper's work at the Frick, stating that: “He opened up a dialogue with contemporary thinkers and cultural figures. The Frick could be perceived as a very static collection. I think Ian changed that.” [14]
The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Located in Frick Fine Arts Building, this two-story library houses a circulating research collection serving the Departments of the History of Art and Architecture and Studio Arts. The Collection contains over 90,000 volumes and subscribes to more than 350 journals in relevant fields and is ranked among the top 10 fine art libraries in the country.