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The complex, located on 5.5 acres (22,000 m 2) [1] of lawn and gardens in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, includes Clayton, the restored Frick mansion; The Frick Art Museum; The Car and Carriage Museum; the Greenhouse; the Frick children's playhouse; and The Café. The site welcomes over 100,000 visitors a year. Admission is free.
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]
This list of museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
The building itself is a gift of Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), daughter of the Pittsburgh industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919). She established the Fine Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh in 1926 and continued to fund it through the 1950s, when she first made a commitment to create a separate structure to ...
The Frick Building is one of the major distinctive and recognizable features of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The tower was built by and is named for Henry Clay Frick , an industrialist coke producer who created a portfolio of commercial buildings in Pittsburgh.
Frick Park is the largest municipal park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, covering 644 acres (1.006 sq mi). It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks. It is one of Pittsburgh's four historic large parks.
The Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain, also known as A Song to Nature, is a 1918 landmark public sculpture in bronze and granite by Victor David Brenner.It sits in Schenley Plaza at the entrance to Schenley Park and directly in front of the University of Pittsburgh's Frick Fine Arts Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Frick Park, a major park in Pittsburgh; Frick Art & Historical Center, a Pittsburgh museum; Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh; Frick Building, a skyscraper in Pittsburgh; Frick Collection, New York City museum; Frick Art Reference Library, a research institution affiliated with the Frick Collection