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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 ]
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]
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.
Lochoff, unable to return because of new communist regime, felt compelled to sell off the paintings. Buyers included Harvard University and the Frick Art Reference Library in New York. Miss Frick acquired the entire collection, however, after Lochoff's death, with the help of art critic Bernard Berenson. In 2003, the paintings were cleaned and ...
The Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located on the former Frick "Clayton" Estate, a 145-acre (59 ha) property in Roslyn Harbor on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold A. Saltzman and his wife Joan, is a three-story Georgian-style mansion that ...
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 ...
HERE Arts Center is a New York City off-off-Broadway producing and presenting home, founded in 1993. Their location includes two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry in addition to art exhibition space and a cafe.