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The Henry Clay Frick House (also known as the Frick Collection building or 1 East 70th Street) is a mansion and museum building on Fifth Avenue, between 70th and 71st streets, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Thomas Hastings as the residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the house contains the Frick ...
The collection originated with Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), who bequeathed his home, paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts to the public for their enjoyment. The institution’s holdings—which encompass masterworks from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—have grown over the decades, more than doubling in size since the opening of the museum in 1935.
16 de dic. de 2007 · Henry Clay Frick's lasting imprint on Pittsburgh's growth, and on its steel and coal industries and the nation's labor movement, remains a matter for debate 88 years after his death. "So many people see him in different ways," said August R. Carlino, whose Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area runs tours of sites from the 1892 Homestead steelworkers' strike.
A new biography of one of these men, Henry Clay Frick, is an extraordinarily powerful brief for this assertion. Written by his great-granddaughter Martha Frick Symington Sanger and called Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait (Abbeville Press), it is one of the handsomest examples of bookmaking I have seen in some time.
Henry Clay Frick. Henry Clay Frick. Henry Clay Frick ( West Overton, 19 dicembre 1849 – New York, 2 dicembre 1919) è stato un imprenditore e mecenate statunitense indicato dai suoi critici come "uomo più odiato d'America" [1]. Lo scomparso Portfolio.com definì Frick come uno dei "peggiori amministratori delegati di tutti i tempi".
The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Second Floor Hallway. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Helen Clay Frick's Sitting Room. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Carriage entrance on 70th Street. The Frick Residence, New York, 1927. Fifth Avenue Garden, taken from the window of the Living Hall.
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.
