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Collection
Identifier: MS.016
Abstract
Collection contains descriptive and provenance information for works of art that passed through the Schaeffer Galleries. Files may also include photographs of artwork, photocopies of research material, and/or bibliographic notecards. Schaeffer Galleries operated in Berlin from 1925-1939 and in New York City from 1936-2000 and specialized in Old Master paintings and drawings.
Dates:
undated
Collection
Identifier: MS.078
Scope and Content Note
One small sketchbook, 5 in. x 7 in., containing two pencil drawings, 19 pen-and-ink drawings, and one pen-and-ink drawing with ink wash. Three unfinished studies are on the verso of completed drawings. Subjects include human figures, mythological and religious subjects, and still lifes.
Most drawings are signed "Shart 63."
Dates:
1963
Collection
Identifier: MS.039
Abstract
The artist Sister Mary of the Compassion (1908-1977), formerly known as Constance Mary Rowe, created works in a wide range of media, including paintings, book illustrations, greeting and holy cards, silver and gold jewelry, mosaic reredos, and embroidered panels. Her works, both religious and secular, were often sold to support the Blue Chapel monastery, a Community of the Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary in Union City, N.J. The collection contains holy cards and greeting cards made by...
Dates:
circa 1959-1970s
Collection
Identifier: MS.055
Scope and Content Note
Catalogue of Works of Art at "Box Hill," St. James, Long Island: Nine page typescript inventory of works of art at Box Hill, the Stanford White estate in Long Island, in 1942.Moses, Lionel. “McKim, Mead & White – A History.” The American Architect and The Architectural Review. Vol. cXXI no. 2394, May 24, 1922: Forty-one page Stanford White article excerpt from The American Architect - The Architectural Review.Swales, Francis...
Dates:
circa 1922-1955
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
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0600.010
Abstract
The Frick Collection, a New York City art museum housed in the former residence of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, began its concert series in 1938. The Frick Collection Concert Records, 1936-1986, document the founding and administration of the program. The records contain memoranda, contracts, concert programs, tickets, schedules, promotional materials, publicity photographs, texts of the intermission talks presented by Frick Collection staff, and correspondence,...
Dates:
1936-1986
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0500.010
Abstract
Contracts, work orders, invoices, receipts, vouchers, and progress reports document the work of the general contractor and subcontractors during the conversion of the Frick residence to The Frick Collection, a public art gallery, and the construction of the new Frick Art Reference Library building.
Dates:
1933-1937
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0600.020
Abstract
The Frick Collection, a New York City art museum housed in the former residence of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, began its lecture program in 1936. Lecture Records, 1936-1985, document the founding and administration of both the staff and guest lecture programs. Records include correspondence, lecture schedules, memoranda, attendance figures, tickets, promotional material, clippings, and some text copies of the lectures.
Dates:
1935-1985
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0300.010
Abstract
As Organizing Director of The Frick Collection, Frederick Mortimer Clapp oversaw all aspects of the transformation of the Frick residence to a public art museum, The Frick Collection, as well as the construction of a new Frick Art Reference Library building. Reports, correspondence, memorandums, minutes, financial records, and summaries of informal meetings and telephone conversations document the project. Topics include architecture, construction, interior design, museum administration, and...
Dates:
1920-1937
Collection
Identifier: TFC.0600.030
Abstract
Since 1940, The Frick Collection and the New York University Institute of Fine Arts have jointly sponsored a Symposium on the History of Art for graduate students. Records of the Symposium, 1939-1982, contain correspondence, programs, invitations, press releases, work orders, opening remarks, and summaries of graduate student papers that document the founding, evolution, and administration of the Symposium program.
Dates:
1939-1982