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When the Frick family moved from Pittsburgh to New York City in 1905, they leased the William H. Vanderbilt House at 640 Fifth Avenue, [15] [12] and Frick expanded his collection during that time. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The collection was spread across their homes in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. [ 18 ]
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 ]
The Frick House was designated as a New York City landmark in 1973, [292] after the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) expressed concerns over the demolition of the adjacent Widener House. [290] The LPC expanded its designation of the Frick House site in 1974 to include several adjacent lots. [339]
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
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.
Stereoscopic photograph of the Knoedler gallery interior, c. 1860–1880 M. Knoedler & Co. (/ ˈ n oʊ d l ər /) [1] was an art dealership in New York City founded in 1846. When it closed in 2011, amid lawsuits for fraud, [2] it was one of the oldest commercial art galleries in the US, having been in operation for 165 years.
There the Frick gallery is called Frick Madison; it opened in March 2021. Reason for the change: foregrounding current event/wording; References supporting change: Farago, Jason (February 25, 2021). "The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331; Infopetal 19:40, 19 March 2021 (UTC)