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The New York and Pennsylvania state governments fought over which government should collect taxes from Frick's estate. [35] Amid this dispute, the collection was reassessed at $13 million in 1921; [30] this figure was repeated in a revised appraisal of Frick's estate that was filed with the New York state government in 1923. [36]
Helen Clay Frick founded the Frick Art Reference Library—renamed in 2024 to the Frick Art Research Library—in 1920 as a memorial to her father, Henry Clay Frick, [1] who had died in 1919. [2] Its first home was the bowling alley of the Henry Clay Frick House ; [ 3 ] the library's staff worked in the house's basement. [ 4 ]
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
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 the Frick Collection.
[335] Conversely, in 1999, a New York Daily News reporter described the mansion as "never a home so much as it was a great vaulted hall" for Frick's art. [336] Christopher Gray of The New York Times said the mansion was "straightforward in most respects, but made peculiar by the long blank limestone finger stretching out on 71st Street". [198]
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 ...
From April 2020 through July 2021, he hosted an online program, "Cocktails with a Curator", with fellow Frick curators Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit. [6] [7] The program examined artworks at the Frick and had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube and are the basis of a book by Rizzoli Electra. [8]
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