Frick Art Reference Library
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Construction Images - The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library, 1933-1935
Series
Identifier: TFC/FARL-0700-030-02.01
Scope and Content Note
Photographs, 1933-1935, document the conversion of the Frick family's New York City residence at One East 70th Street into a public museum, The Frick Collection, as well as the construction of a new Frick Art Reference Library building at 10 East 71st Street. Both interior and exterior views show areas of the Frick residence that would be altered or demolished during the construction project, the conversion of areas within the house, the construction of new spaces for the museum, and the...
Dates:
1933 - 1935
Frick Art Reference Library Staff Records - Katharine McCook Knox
Collection
Identifier: FARL.1300.040
Abstract
Katharine McCook Knox (1890-1983), a Washington, D.C.-area art historian and author specializing in early American art, worked for the Frick Art Reference Library as a researcher, consultant, and special staff member for over 50 years. Mrs. Knox's staff records consist of correspondence, 1922-1977, regarding art research, photographing trips, her publications and lectures, and Library acquisitions.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1922-1967; 1922-1977
Frick Art Reference Library Staff Research - Katherine McCook Knox Records
Collection
Identifier: FARL.1400.050
Abstract
Katharine McCook Knox (1890-1983), a Washington, D.C.-area art historian and author specializing in early American art, worked with the Frick Art Reference Library as a researcher, consultant, and special staff member for over 50 years. These records document her work as a member of the Library staff, as well as her personal research and writings in the field of early American art from 1922 to 1974. Records include correspondence, typescripts and manuscripts, galley proofs, handwritten and...
Dates:
1924-1979
Helen Clay Frick Records - Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: FARL.0100.040
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984) founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. Helen Clay Frick Correspondence documents her tenure from 1921 to 1960. Letters, notes, lists, and photographs concern administrative and personnel matters, staff work, building and construction, Library furnishings, acquisitions and gifts, art research, staff events, special projects, Library photographing expeditions, and some personal matters. Correspondents include Library...
Dates:
1921-1960
Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Italian Art
Collection
Identifier: FARL.0100.020.02
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. These files were produced through her research on Italian sculpture and painting, primarily to annotate photo mounts in the Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive. The Research Files span the years 1920-1933, and contain typed and handwritten research notes, black and white photographs, printed material, some...
Dates:
1920-1933
Helen Clay Frick Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon
Collection
Identifier: FARL.0100.020.01
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. The papers reflect her lifelong interest in the sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828) and document the research she and the Frick Art Reference Library staff conducted over the course of nearly fifty years. The Research Files span the years 1930-1977, and contain typed and handwritten research notes,...
Dates:
1930-1977
Images of Artists Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS.013
Abstract
The international artists featured in this growing collection include painters, sculptors and muralists born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their images were captured by various photographers and printmakers in a variety of settings and portrait styles. Formats include cabinet cards, postcards, prints on paper, and photographs. Seven of the photographs were signed by the artists, four of which were personally addressed to Mrs. Adelaide Frick (wife of Henry Clay Frick).
Dates:
circa 1800s-1900s
J. Hall Pleasants Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS.012
Abstract
Dr. J. Hall Pleasants (1873-1957), an authority on early Maryland painters and their works, provided the Frick Art Reference Library with information on thousands of Maryland paintings, and also organized and participated in the Library's photographing expeditions to Maryland. The correspondence and notes in this collection contain information on the genealogy of portrait subjects, painting provenance, attributions, owners, dates, and locations, with the bulk of the research concerning...
Dates:
1924-1959
Lawrence Park Diary
Collection
Identifier: MS.023
Scope and Content Note
Diary of March-April 1923 trip to South Carolina to identify and photograph paintings throughout the state for the Frick Art Reference Library. Lawrence Park, Helen Clay Frick (for 3 weeks of the trip), Ira Martin, and various friends of Miss Frick made the trip. The diary is handwritten and full of enclosures. It gives a detailed account of their activities (who they met, where they went, where they stayed, what they ate, and what they saw).
Dates:
1923
The Frick Collection Central Files
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0400.010
Abstract
The Frick Collection's alphabetical subject files, 1932-1936, document the conversion of the New York residence of Henry Clay Frick to The Frick Collection, a public art museum, and the construction of a new Frick Art Reference Library building. Correspondence, internal memorandums, minutes, reports, clippings, inventories, and contracts detail the work of Organizing Director Frederick Mortimer Clapp; architect John Russell Pope; general contractor Marc Eidlitz; and Frick Collection...
Dates:
1932-1936
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- Correspondence 6
- Library architecture 5
- Art museum architecture 4
- Mansions--Remodeling for other use 4
- Photographs 4
- Research notes 4
- Art libraries 3
- Minutes 3
- Portraits, American 3
- Art museums--New York (State)--New York 2
- Art, American 2
- Newspaper clippings 2
- Presidents--United States--Portraits 2
- Account books 1
- Architectural decorations & ornaments 1
- Art treasures in war 1
- Art, Italian 1
- Art--Private collections--Maryland 1
- Art--Private collections--South Carolina 1
- Art--Provenance--Research 1
- Artists--Maryland 1
- Brochures 1
- Building 1
- Cabinet photographs 1
- Construction 1
- Construction contracts 1
- Diaries 1
- Invoices 1
- Library administration 1
- Library employees 1
- Lighting fixtures 1
- Mansions--New York (State)--New York 1
- Maryland--Genealogy 1
- New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc. 1
- Painters 1
- Portrait painters 1
- Portrait painters--United States 1
- Postcards 1
- Progress reports 1
- Receipts (financial records) 1
- Sculptors 1
- Sculptors--France--Correspondence 1
- Sculpture, French 1
- The Frick Collection: Paintings: Summary Catalogue 1
- Vouchers 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war 1 + ∧ less
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