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The museum dates to 1920, when the trustees of Frick's estate formed the Frick Collection Inc. to care for his art collection, which he had bequeathed for public use. After Frick's wife Adelaide Frick died in 1931, John Russell Pope converted the Frick House into a museum, which opened on December 16, 1935. The museum acquired additional works ...
Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
John Hoppner: 1758–1810 The Ladies Sarah and Catherine Bligh [86] c. 1790 oil on canvas Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: 1780–1867 Comtesse d'Haussonville [87] 1845 oil on canvas John C. Johansen: 1876–1964 Henry Clay Frick [88] 1943 oil on canvas Gerald Kelly: 1879–1972 Portrait of Henry Clay Frick [89] 1924 oil on canvas Jacques de ...
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.
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]
John Fricke (born November 30, 1950) is a historian and author focusing on The Wizard of Oz and Judy Garland. Fricke was born and raised in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, where he attended John Marshall High School and worked in advertising at the Melody Top Theater.
The White Horse is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the English artist John Constable.It was completed in 1819 and is now in the Frick Collection in New York City.. The painting marked a vital turning point in the artist's career. [1]
John W. Frick notes that it has been characterised by film historians as old fashioned for it was little more than filmed theatre. This is warranted by the fact that the entire film was shot from a single stationary camera and that the sets were the painted scenery of 19th century theatre, while the performers, sets, and costumes were those ...