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Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Clay Frick Papers, Series VI: Research Files on Jean Antoine Houdon
Collection
Identifier: FFP.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
Found in:
Frick Collection Archives
John Hill Morgan Research Files
Collection
Identifier: MS.008
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, printed material, and notes document John Hill Morgan's research on George Washington portraits and other early American works of art. Morgan (1870-1945), an assistant professor and curator of American painting at Yale University, was considered an authority on early American art, most notably of portraits of George Washington.
Dates:
1922-1944
Found in:
Frick Collection Archives
Raymond P. R. Neilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS.006
Abstract
Diaries, notebooks, and other notes regarding the work of New York City portraitist, still life painter, and art instructor, Raymond P. R. Neilson. Collection also includes some correspondence regarding portrait commissions.
Dates:
circa 1930-1950s
Found in:
Frick Collection Archives
