Duveen Brothers
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Art Collecting Files of Henry Clay Frick
Collection
Identifier: ACF
Abstract
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist, began forming his art collection in 1881, and continued to acquire works of art until his death in 1919. He bequeathed his New York City residence, furnishings, and art collection to be established as a public art gallery called The Frick Collection, which opened to the public in December 1935. This collection contains correspondence, invoices and financial records, catalogs, inventories, registers, notes, narrative...
Dates:
1881-1925, undated
Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series II: Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HCFF.01.02
Abstract
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), a Pittsburgh industrialist who made his fortune in coke and steel, was also a prominent art collector. This series consists largely of Frick's incoming correspondence, with some outgoing letters, on matters relating to business and investments, art collecting, political activities, real estate, philanthropy, and family matters.
Dates:
1882-1929, undated
One East 70th Street Papers
Collection
Identifier: HCFF.07
Abstract
Henry Clay Frick, 1849-1919, was a prominent industrialist and art collector. His New York residence at One East 70th Street was designed by Thomas Hastings, and completed in 1914. The house was later opened to the public as The Frick Collection in 1935. These materials document the construction and furnishing of the house, as well as some aspects of domestic life there.
Dates:
1907-1931
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- Art dealers 2
- Art--Collectors and collecting--New York (State)--New York 2
- Art--Private collections 2
- Decorative arts--Collectors and collecting--New York (State)--New York 2
- Financial records 2
- Art--Collectors and collecting--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh 1
- Art--Private collections--New York (State)--New York 1
- Art--Private collections--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh 1
- Artists--Correspondence 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Estate inventories 1
- Industrialists--United States 1
- Invoices 1
- Letterpress copybooks 1
- Newspaper clippings 1
- Photographs 1
- Presidents--United States--Correspondence 1
- Railroads--History 1
- Steel industry and trade 1 + ∧ less
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