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	Henry Clay Frick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frick was born in West Overton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and came from a poor family with a working-class background.
		Frick was a millionaire by the age of thirty.
		Frick left a will in which he bequeathed 150 acres of undeveloped land to the City of Pittsburgh for use as a public park, together with a $2 million trust fund to assist with the maintenance of the park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Clay_Frick (1266 words)

	Frick Collection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Frick Collection is an art museum located at 1 East 70th Street, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, facing Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
		The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master paintings housed in 16 galleries within the former mansion.
		The Frick Collection's building was the inspiration for Avengers Mansion, which like the Frick covers the entire city block at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street (albeit with the address of 890 Fifth Avenue).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frick_Collection (301 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Frick Collection
		The Frick Collection is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist.
		Frick bequeathed the residence and the works of art he had collected over a period of forty years to a Board of Trustees, permitting them to add to his collection (almost a third of the paintings were acquired since his death) and to make it a center for the study of art and related subjects.
		Frick's death in 1931, family and trustees of The Frick Collection began the transformation of the Fifth Avenue residence into a museum.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /UES/UES044.htm (1317 words)

	The Frick Collection: Search Our Collections
		A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquillity of a time gone by and at the same time testifies to how great art collections can still inspire viewers today.
		Housed in the New York mansion built by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), one of America’s most successful coke and steel industrialists, are masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting.
		Frick bought, is one of three pictures by that artist in the Collection, while Piero della Francesca's image of St.
	collections.frick.org (476 words)

	A COLLECTOR AMONG COLLECTORS: HENRY CLAY FRICK by Raichel Le Goff
		Frick’s collecting acumen did not stop with old masters, he was equally discerning in his choice of renaissance bronzes, Limoges enamels, porcelains, furniture, drawings, prints and the work of contemporary artists such as Whistler.
		Frick’s mansion on Fifth Avenue and 70th Street which he had begun building in 1912 with the intention of creating a perfect setting for his collection, the whole to be left as his legacy to the nation.
		Frick deeply affected the taste of Americans in the decades after his death...it was, and continues to be, the model, the touchstone, for many other collectors and institutions - whether or not they achieve the standards of collecting or the atomspehre of The Frick Collection as we know it today."
	epublishingcorp.com /articlesRaichel/Museums/frick.htm (1188 words)

	Moving the Frick papers to new York starts a family feud
		Frick, who was born 150 years ago today in a small springhouse on his grandfather's Westmoreland County farm, began the Frick Collection after moving to New York in 1905 and established it as an art museum in his will.
		Situated in the palatial former Frick family home across from Central Park, it is adjacent to the Frick Art Reference Library, founded by Helen Frick in 1920, a year after her father's death.
		The Frick family archives belong in New York because the Frick Collection is "the one institution dedicated exclusively to the activities and history of Mr.
	www.post-gazette.com /regionstate/19991219frick2.asp (2021 words)

	Martha Frick Symmington Sanger - Services
		According to Frick, his life was saved because the moment of the attack Martha appeared in a blinding apparition.
		Frick's often-tumultuous relationship with such giants as architect Thomas Hastings and decorators Sir Charles Allom, Elsie de Wolfe, and Joseph Duveen also are noted as Ms.
		Experience the Frick Collection in New York City, the Clayton house- museum at the Frick Art and Historical Center in Pittsburgh, and the Henry Clay Frick Birthplace in West Overton, Pa. (the only pre-Civil War Mennonite Village in tact in America today) with Martha Frick Sanger, a great-granddaughter of Henry Clay Frick.
	frickhistory.com /lectures.html (469 words)

	Frick Collection - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Holbein's portrait of Thomas More is one of the hightlights of the Frick Collection.
		The Frick Collection is an art museum located on Fifth Avenue and 70th street, facing Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.
		The collection features some of the best-known paintings by major European artists, as well as works of sculpture, furniture, porcelain, enamel, and carpets.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Frick_Collection (256 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - Art and Life: Frick Art Museum Exhibit Showcases Family's Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Fricks, if you don't know, are Henry Clay Frick, millionaire industrialist and art collector, and his wife, Adelaide Howard Childs, and their children Childs Frick and Helen Clay Frick.
		She established the Frick Art Museum in 1970, to house her art collection and that of her father, and wanted her family home, Clayton, and its estate preserved for the people of Pittsburgh after her death.
		Purchased by Frick circa 1890, it's a self-playing organ.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/425132/art_and_life_frick_art_museum_exhibit_showcases_familys_collections/index.html?source=r_science (820 words)

	History of Industrialist, Art Patron, and Philanthropist Henry Clay Frick
		Frick was a millionaire by the age of 30.
		Frick bequeathed this residence and the works of art for the formation of a public gallery for the purpose of “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts...subject to occupancy by Mrs.
		In the 1990s, the Henry Clay Frick Educational Commission became the Henry Clay Frick Educational Fund, one of the specially-endowed funds of Pittsburgh's Buhl Foundation(better known for construction and operation of The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science).
	johnbrashear.tripod.com /frick.html (1565 words)

	The Frick Collection, New York City
		The Frick mansion was designed by Carrere and Hastings, the same architects who worked on the New York Public Library, and was built to "make Carnegie's place look like a miner's shack." Preserved on Millionaire's Row, the mansion is a grand setting for an incredible collection of European painting and decorative arts.
		Frick, whose private art collection was made into a museum after his death in the early twentieth century; the museum is designed to feel more like a private home than a public place.
		The Frick Collection is a museum that would appeal mostly to fans of classic sixteenth to eighteenth century European art.
	www.ny.com /museums/frick.collection.html (398 words)

	Frick Collection Guide New York: Museum and Exhibits Overview
		The Frick Collection is an anthology of the some of the most distinguished works of Western art from the early Renaissance through the late nineteenth century, including masterpieces by Bellini, El Greco, Rembrandt, Titian, Turner, Vermeer, Whistler, and many others housed in one of the great mansions remaining from the Gilded Age.
		Frick's death in 1931, with alterations and additions made by the architect John Russell Pope.
		Frick's private house, and visitors are therefore asked to observe several regulations necessary for protecting the works of art and their domestic setting.
	www.new-york-new-york.com /frick-collection-museum.htm (321 words)

	In Italy Online - The Frick Collection
		he Frick Collection is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-14.
		Frick's death in 1931, changes and additions to the building were made by the architect John Russell Pope, and in 1935 the Collection was opened to the public.
		he Collection attempts to preserve the ambiance of Mr.
	www.initaly.com /~initaly/itathome/museums/frick/frick.htm (172 words)

	Frick Collection - New York, NY 10021 - Reviews: Museums
		Although this collection of paintings is smaller than the one at the Metropolitian Museum of Art, the quality of the paintings is just as good or even better.
		The collection features antiques, sculptures and decorative art that in itself would be a find but the paintings are outstanding as well, with works by Monet, Gainsborough, Vermeer and Frans Hal just to name a few.
		The permanent collection is wonderful and the small outdoor garden is a nice spot to reflect and let the art sink in to your soul.
	www.insiderpages.com /b/3718581253 (551 words)

	Social Diary 12/30/04 - The Frick Collection and Duveen
		Henry Clay Frick was twenty years older than Duveen, a country boy from the hills of Pennsylvania who had made an immense fortune by the time Duveen came into his life.
		Frick a call and tell him that Duveen had just bought the Fragonard Room and was willing to sell it to Mr.
		Frick bought the panels and also charged Duveen with their installation in the house at 1 East 70th Street.
	newyorksocialdiary.com /socialdiary/2004/12_30_04/socialdiary12_30_04.php (1715 words)

	Testimony ends in dispute over moving Frick family archives
		For the past week, lawyers for the Helen Clay Frick Foundation have insisted that a plan to divide the Frick family archives between a New York City art library and the University of Pittsburgh is fair and reasonable.
		The archives document the Frick family's life, the rise of industry, art collecting in the gilded age and the Victorian era.
		Astrachan contends that the Frick family archives were among the property found at Clayton when the heiress died there at 96 in November 1984.
	post-gazette.com /regionstate/20010710frick0710p6.asp (537 words)

	The Frick Collection
		Henry Clay Frick, maybe the richest of them all, went even further and made arrangements for his collection to be maintained in his Fifth Avenue mansion in perpetuity.
		It illustrates the challenges of display very well, although on the whole, the Frick is a great triumph of welcome contrasts and serendipitous connections that allow us to value the paintings individually, on their own terms, to an extent that is more difficult in the sometimes clinical atmosphere of major public collections.
		And what is lost in the ability to compare across a wider collection, or to see a broader taste, is sometimes made up for in the ability to view in a quiet and intimate setting.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2006-01/frick.htm (1098 words)

	Ettractions.com - The Frick Collection
		Housed in the New York mansion built by Henry Clay Frick, one of America’s most successful steel and railroad tycoons, are masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting.
		We are deeply committed to maintaining our collections and the historical buildings in which they are housed.
		The stone wall surrounding The Frick Collection has recently been replaced and the wrought iron fence that it supports restored.
	www.ettractions.com /ettractions/att/17809.asp (245 words)

	Hamilton Palace : dispersal and demolition
		The Frick Collection in New York houses a very important secretaire and commode by Jean-Henri Riesener and other items from the Hamilton Palace Collection.
		Frick employed Carrère and Hastings, the architects of the vast new library, to design the building, and engaged Sir Charles Allom (the decorator of Buckingham Palace) to assist with the interiors.
		He left 'The Frick Collection' for the benefit of the public, in the care of his daughter Helen C Frick and other trustees, and it opened its doors to visitors in 1935.
	www.rcahms.gov.uk /hamilton/demolition27.html (158 words)

	Frick Collection in The NYC Insider: an Insider's Guide to New York City
		Henry Clay Frick was a millionaire in his own right, even before he served as president and chairman of Carnegie Steel and on J.P. Morgan's board of directors.
		He bequeathed his mansion, along with his extensive art collection and a $15 million endowment, to the City of New York upon his death in 1919, just five years after the building was completed.
		We are particularly fond of the library and the serene glass-ceilinged garden court.
	www.theinsider.com /nyc/museums/1frick.htm (316 words)

	The Frick Collection: Exhibitions: Memling's Portraits
		The Frick Collection is the only museum in the United States to present this touring exhibition of paintings by the important Netherlandish artist Hans Memling (c.
		Organized by the Frick in collaboration with the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, and the Groeningemuseum, Bruges, the exhibition provides an overview of Memling's successful career in portraiture, with a selection of approximately thirty portraits by the master and his school, including portrait wings from diptychs and triptychs along with autonomous panels of individual patrons.
		Chief Curator Colin B. Bailey is coordinating the exhibition at The Frick Collection.
	www.frick.org /exhibitions/memling (446 words)

	Frick Collection - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		It is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914.
		The Frick is the preeminent small art museum in the United States, and displays on of the world's greatest collections of old master paintings.
		Included in the Collection are Jean-Honoré Fragonard's masterpieces, "The Progress of Love", Rembrandt's most recognizable self-portrait, 3 Vermeers including "Mistress and Maid", Piero della Francesca's "St. John the Evangelist", and works by Bellini, Constable, Corot, Degas, El Greco, Goya, Holbein, Claude Lorrain, van Ruisdael, Titian, Turner, Van Dyck, Velázquez, and Whistler.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Frick_Collection (207 words)

	Goya's Last Works - The Frick Collection
		Acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1914, the painting is the inspiration for the special exhibition,
		It is only in retrospect that we can appreciate the extent to which a painting such as the Frick's María Martínez de Puga seems to anticipate the stark modernist style of Manet.
		He also painted inventive portraits in an English manner of the men and women of the Spanish Enlightenment, among them the Duke of Osuna, whose image from the 1790s was acquired by the Trustees of The Frick Collection.
	www.worldprintmakers.com /frick/goyaslast.htm (1167 words)

	Unprecedented Gathering of Six Major Paintings by Velázquez - Frick Collection - Absolutearts.com
		Velázquez in New York Museums is organized jointly by The Frick Collection and The Hispanic Society of America and is on view from November 16, 1999, through January 16, 2000.
		Mitchell Codding, Director of The Hispanic Society of America, announced, We are pleased to collaborate with The Frick Collection for Velázquez in New York Museums.
		Velázquez’s work profited greatly from study of the royal collection, which was rich in paintings of the Venetians, especially Titian, and he probably also drew inspiration from Rubens during the latter's visit to Madrid from 1628 to 1629.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=747 (991 words)

	PR: COOTM: The Frick Collection
		The Frick Collection has some of the most exceptional works of Western art from the Renaissance through the late nineteenth century, including paintings, sculpture, and decorative art.
		The gallery talks, which are led by speakers from the curatorial and professional staff of the Collection, enhance the Frick experience with an insight of the artists and their works.
		About The Frick Collection: Housed in the 1914 New York mansion, The Frick Collection offers a unique presentation of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art acquired by Henry Clay Frick, one of America’s most successful industrialists, which he later bequeathed to the public.
	www.nycvisit.com /content/index.cfm?pagePkey=1591 (615 words)

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