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Today, The Frick Collection continues to evoke the splendor of America’s Gilded Age, and its assembly of masterpieces testifies to Henry Clay Frick’s extraordinary vision as an art collector. Many of the Dutch and Flemish paintings are on view in the museum’s West Gallery, where some of them have been for more than a century (fig. 7).
Stay connected with The Frick Collection, anticipated to reopen in late 2024. Explore masterpieces from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Letter to Sir Charles Allom, Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), December 12, 1913, Original Source: One East 70th Street Papers. Frick's reply, drafted on the verso of Allom's letter, urges restraint in the house's decoration: "We desire a comfortable well arranged home, simple, in good taste, and not ostentatious."
Henry Clay Frick and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs, purchased Clayton in August 1882 for $25,000. At the time, the house was considerably smaller, an 11-room, Italianate-style building on a 1.43-acre parcel of land.
En esta coyuntura industrial, Henry Clay Frick apostó por lo que nadie había considerado. En vez del acero, optó por el coque –material derivado del carbón– imprescindible en la fabricación del metal. Antes de cumplir los 30 años, Frick ya era millonario. Para una sociedad burguesa y elitista, la fortuna no bastaba.
Acquiring the Collection. Helen Clay Frick's bedroom, One East 70th Street. Photo: Ira W. Martin. 1927. Henry Clay Frick's bedroom, One East 70th Street. Photo: Ira W. Martin.1927. Henry Clay Frick's sitting room, One East 70th Street. Photo: Ira W. Martin. 1927. Mrs. Frick's Boudoir (as installed on the second floor), 1927. Entrance Hall (now ...
29 de ene. de 2021 · Frick’s earliest choices remain today at the Frick Art Center in Pittsburgh, with the significant exception of the Portrait of a Young Artist, now attributed to a ‘Follower of Rembrandt’, which is in New York; Esmée Quodbach, ‘“I want this collection to be my monument”: Henry Clay Frick and the formation of the Frick Collection’, Journal of the History of Collections 21 (2009 ...
