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Hardly had the dust settled from the Manhattan opening of the new Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator...
James Howard Bridge arrived in the U. S. in 1884, with good references. He had been private secretary to the late great Herbert Spencer. He got himself a job as "literary assistant" to Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie passed his "literary assistant" on to his onetime business partner, Henry Clay Frick, and James Howard Bridge acted as a Frick secretary for two years. In 1914 he was put in charge of the Frick pictures, exactly in what capacity being one of the turning points of last week's trial. In November 1928, nine years after Mr. Frick's death...
Many years ago Miss Helen Frick began to study art seriously so that she could better appreciate the things her father's dealers were buying for him. She acquired an extensive collection of art books, was glad to let fellow students use them. The Frick art library grew & grew. A librarian had to be hired, then assistants; finally a house was built to hold it all. The Frick Art Reference Library, like Sir Robert Witt's in London, chose to specialize in photographs of works of art. It did not content itself with buying prints of pictures...
...reproductions that have ever been published, all previous owners, all exhibitions at which the original has been shown, along with descriptive passages from text books. The Borro portrait has been variously ascribed to Velasquez, Bernini, Carreño de Miranda, Tinelli, Andrea Sacchi and others. The Frick Museum was not to be caught. All these claims were listed on the back of the photograph and a brief summary of the entire argument attached...
Supplying Mr. Cortissoz' wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs...