Notebooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series I: Youth and Education
Collection
Identifier: HCFF.02.01
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984) was the daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick. She was also a philanthropist and founder of the Frick Art Reference Library in New York. These papers consist of notebooks, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia dating from her youth and education in Pittsburgh and New York.
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1897-1908; 1865-1924
Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series VI: Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon
Collection
Identifier: HCFF.02.06
Abstract
Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, had a lifelong interest in art history, particularly in the French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828). This resulted in nearly 50 years of research, for which she enlisted Frick Art Reference Library staff members as well as outside consultants in her work. These research files contain typed and handwritten research notes, correspondence, photographs, Frick Art Reference Library photo mounts,...
Dates:
1802?-1976, undated
