Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and Its CollectionsA history of the building at 1 East 70th Street, New York, that served as the home of Henry Clay Frick and his family, and later became the museum known as the Frick Collection. Treats the design, erection and decoration of the Frick home (1912-1915), its conversion to museum (1932-1935) and its expansion to current form (1973-1977). The book, containing 117 illustrations, also discusses successive adjacent buildings housing the Frick Art Reference Library. |
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments | 6 |
East 70th Street | 22 |
The House and Its Interiors | 47 |
Copyright | |
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640 Fifth Avenue 70th Street Garden addition Adelaide April architect Art and Historical Art Reference Library building Carnegie Carrère and Hastings Carstairs CITY THOMAS HASTINGS coke collector construction dealer December decorative arts Dining Room Drawing Room Duveen Brothers East 70th Street East 71st Street Elsie de Wolfe ENAMEL ROOM façade Fifth Avenue Fifth Avenue Garden Fragonard Room Frick acquired Frick Art Reference Frick Collection Frick residence Frick seems Frick's bedroom furniture Garden Court ground-floor rooms Hastings's Helen Clay Henry Clay Frick Historical Center installed interior January John Russell Pope Joseph Duveen July June Knoedler & Company Lenox Library Living Hall London Metropolitan Museum Morgan Morgan's collection neo-Renaissance north elevation November old masters Oval Room paintings panels pediment Pittsburgh porte-cochère Portrait Pride's Crossing proposed purchased Samuel Yellin second floor Seligmann South Hall Thomas Hastings trustees Vanderbilt's wall West Gallery Widener YORK CITY THOMAS York Public Library