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The Goldfinch plays a central role in the 2013 eponymous novel by American author Donna Tartt. The novel's protagonist, 13-year-old Theodore "Theo" Decker, survives a terrorist bombing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in which his mother dies. He takes the Fabritius painting, part of a Dutch Golden Age exhibition, with him as he escapes ...
A 2000 poll by Travel Holiday magazine ranked the Frick Collection as the third-best art museum in the U.S. [427] Upon the museum's 75th anniversary in 2010, a Wall Street Journal critic wrote that, although the museum lacked major shows and had not undergone a high-profile renovation, it "quietly attracts a steady stream of about 300,000 ...
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 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 ]
Portrait paintings in the Frick Collection (13 P) Pages in category "Paintings in the Frick Collection" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
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Born to Midwestern American citizens living in Germany, William Suhr began his career as an apprentice to a stonemason, "specializing" in stone Madonnas. [1] [2] After three years there, he began studying at the Prussian Academy of Arts, where he met and befriended art historian Max Deri, who introduced him to the art of conservation and restoration. [1]