Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie's longtime steelmaking partner, died in 1919, he left his great art collection, his impressive Manhattan home and one of the few private lawns on Fifth Avenue to his widow for her lifetime, with the provision that thereafter it should become a public museum. The Widow Frick has been dead since 1931 and the Frick Museum is not yet ready for the public...
This week a new seven-story building was opened immediately behind the Frick Museum, with which it will eventually be integrated. No part of Henry Frick's original bequest, the Frick Library was the idea and gift of his daughter Helen. Stocked with some 45,000 books, pamphlets, catalogs and over 200,000 photo graphs, it was instantly recognized as one of the most important art libraries in the world...
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...
Meeting in Manhattan last week, the National League's club-owners remorsefully accepted his resignation, created for him the position of chairman of the board. Chosen as his successor was brisk young Ford Christopher Frick, who last February resigned as sportswriter on the New York Evening Journal to be the National League's director of publicity...