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The Fricks collect : an American family and the evolution of taste in the Gilded Age /

"Before his New York home became a museum, Henry Clay Frick engaged some of his era's most important art dealers to build a notable collection and the best decorators to create suitable Guilded Age interiors to accommodate the works. This story traces the journey that led to the creation o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wardropper, Ian (Author)
Other Authors: Fellowes, Julian (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Rizzoli Electa, 2025.
Subjects:
Frick Collection > History.
Frick Collection > Catalogs.
Frick, Henry Clay, > 1849-1919 > Art collections > History.
Frick, Henry Clay, > 1849-1919 > Art collections > Catalogs.
Frick, Helen Clay, > 1888-1984 > Art collections > History.
Frick, Helen Clay, > 1888-1984 > Art collections > Catalogs.
Frick family.
Art > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs.
Art museums > New York (State) > New York.
Historic house museums > New York (State) > New York.
Art > New York (État) > New York > Catalogues.
Maisons historiques (Musées) > New York (État) > New York.
Frick (Famille)
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Catalogues.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Julian Fellowes
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • The Fricks of Pennsylvania
  • Henry Clay Frick, becoming a collector
  • Clayton, the first home, the first collection
  • The Vanderbilt Mansion and its art collection
  • Rival collectors
  • Charles Carstairs and M. Knoedler & Co.
  • Collecting paintings, 1900-1911
  • East Coast houses
  • The decorators : White, Allom & Co. and Elsie De Wolfe
  • Collecting fine furniture
  • Duveen and decorative arts
  • Choosing well : the collection of J.P. Morgan
  • Collecting paintings, 1912-1919
  • The ones that got away
  • Furthering the Frick Collection : Helen Clay Frick
  • Childs Frick, collector and paleontologist
  • Gilding the lily : the Frick collects.