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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 ...
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
Henry Clay Frick was a coke and steel magnate. [4] [5] As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in Broadford, Pennsylvania. [6]Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's In the Louvre, in 1880, [7] after moving to Pittsburgh. [6]
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.
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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 ]
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Includes Clayton, the restored Frick mansion; Frick Art Museum of fine and decorative art; Car and Carriage Museum with over 20 local antique cars; Greenhouse and grounds Heinz History Center: Strip District: Local history: History of Western Pennsylvania, includes Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum; center also operates Meadowcroft Rockshelter