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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]
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
The New York Café was renamed the Hungaria Café in 1954. In 1957, Hungarian sculptors Sándor Boldogfai Farkas, Ödön Metky, and János Sóváry carved replicas in the café of the damaged allegorical sculptures of Thrift and Wealth, America and Hungary. The New York Café was returned to its historic name in 1989, with the fall of communism.
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.
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]