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Photographs

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Italy and Switzerland Album

 Collection
Identifier: HCFF.06.PS-07 (Album 1)
Scope and Content Note Album contains photographs taken by Helen Clay Frick during the latter portion of the Frick family's 1912 trip abroad. People depicted in the album include Helen Clay Frick's mother, Adelaide H.C. Frick, her future sister-in-law, Frances Shoemaker Dixon, and her governess, Marika Ogiz, as well as J. Horace Harding and Dorothea Harding, who traveled with the Frick family in 1912. Images in the album were predominantly taken in Italy, with some images of Switzerland at the end. Cities...
Dates: 1912 - 1912
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Jane, Lady Abdy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS.128
Abstract

The papers of art dealer and society hostess Jane, Lady Abdy (1934-2015) contain material related to her commercial galleries, as well as her business as a private art dealer, including artist files, press clippings, exhibition catalog drafts, book reviews, sales and purchases, events planning, and correspondence.

Dates: 1960-2016, 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

Josef Albers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS.036
Abstract

Artwork, exhibition catalogs, writings, and clippings that document the career of artist and art educator Josef Albers.

Dates: 1933-1961
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Lucy B. Mitchell Research Files on James Sanford Ellsworth

 Collection
Identifier: MS.037
Abstract

Data Sheets on individual portraits, photographs, correspondence, research notes, and printed materials document Lucy B. Mitchell's research on the American folk artist, James Sanford Ellsworth. Mitchell (1901-1988), an art historian and collector of Ellsworth’s paintings, was considered an authority on the artist.

Dates: 1952-1987
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc. Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS.004
Abstract

The records of Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc. provide a picture of an independent art dealer operating a firm in New York during the 1970s and 1980s. The records include artist files, stock books, subject files and correspondence.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1970 - 1984; 1942-1991
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Richard P. Wunder Research Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS.002
Abstract

Research files of art historian Richard P. Wunder, containing artwork files, photographs, correspondence, writings and notes. Content mostly consists of his research on Gian Paolo Panini, though Hyacinthe Rigaud, Emmanuel Leutze, and architectural and theatre drawings are prominent topics as well.

Dates: 1945-1989
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive

 Collection
Identifier: MS.065
Abstract The Rosenberg & Stiebel Archive documents a four-generation family business of art dealers from circa 1890-2012. The vast majority of records relate to the New York business, Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., which operated from 1939-2000, while much more limited documentation exists for Antiquitäten J. Rosenbaum, GmbH in Frankfurt; I. Rosenbaum, N.V. in Amsterdam; S. & R. Rosenberg, Ltd. in London; and Stiebel et Cie in Paris. These records contain important provenance information from...
Dates: 1890-2014; Majority of material found in 1939-2000
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Sister Mary of the Compassion [Constance Mary Rowe] Collection

 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
Found in: Frick Collection Archives

Walter and Matilda Gay Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS.059
Abstract Walter Gay (1856-1937) was an American painter known for his paintings of interiors. For the better part of his life, Gay lived in France, where he met and married heiress and fellow expatriate Matilda E. Travers (1855-1943). The bulk of this collection is formed by the diaries of Matilda Gay which provide detailed insight into the Gays' daily life as well as American expatriate life in France before, during, and after World War I. The collection also contains correspondence, photographs...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1880-1938; 1877-2012
Found in: Frick Collection Archives