The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art Records, 1939-1982.

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The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art Records, 1939-1982.

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Correspondence, programs, invitations, press releases, work orders, opening remarks, and summaries of graduate student papers document the founding, evolution and administration of The Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art (known as the Symposium on Art and Archaeology from 1940-1953). Records date from 1939 to 1982. The earliest files contain the most comprehensive documentation of the program, and only the files from 1940-1942 contain summaries of the papers presented. No copies of the graduate students' papers presented at the Symposia are in the collection. Correspondence concerns the selection of graduate students, biographical information on the presenters, their paper topics, the logistical planning of the Symposium lectures and luncheons, expenses, and discussions regarding which universities to include in the program. Correspondents, primarily Frick Collection staff, professors of participating universities and graduate student speakers, include Frederick Mortimer Clapp, Franklin M. Biebel, Harry D.M. Grier, Bernice Davidson, Walter W.S. Cook, Sumner McK. Crosby, William B. Dinsmoor, Charles Rufus Morey, Joseph C. Sloane, E. Baldwin Smith, Craig Hugh Smyth, and Rudolf Wittkower. The files also contain responses to invitations from Erwin Panofsky, Alfred Barr, Fiske Kimball, and Belle da Costa Greene. The Symposium continues to be held on an annual basis, and additional records will be added to this collection as they are processed.

1.5 linear feet (4 boxes)

Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Clapp, Frederick Mortimer, 1879-

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American poet. From the description of Frederick Clapp papers, 1938-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872491 Frederick Mortimer Clapp was an American art historian, educator, and poet, and the first director of The Frick Collection from 1936 to 1951. He was born in New York City in 1879, and attended the City College of New York (1896-1899) and then Yale (1899-1902) receiving a B.A. and M.A. He taught at City College and the University of California extens...

Sloane, Joseph C.

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Joseph Curtis Sloane (1909-1998), son of Joseph C. and Julia L. Moss Sloane, was born 8 October 1909, at Pottstown, Pa. As chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Art, Sloane was an important leader in promoting art in North Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. Sloane helped lead the movement to build the new North Carolina Museum of Art, which opened in 1983. As director of Ackland Art Museum, he helped build the collection. During his tenure at Bryn Mawr College in t...

New York University. Institute of Fine Arts

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Davidson, Bernice F.

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Crosby, Sumner McK. (Sumner McKnight), 1909-1982

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Biebel, Franklin M. (Franklin Matthews)

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Grier, Harry D. M., 1914-1972

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Museum director; New York, N.Y. Director of the Frick Collection, from 1964 until his death in 1972. From the description of Harry Dobson Miller Grier interviews, 1970 Apr. 21-June 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220186224 Harry Dobson Miller Grier (1914-1972) was a museum director from New York, N.Y. Director of the Frick Collection, from 1964 until his death in 1972. From the description of Oral history inter...

Cook, Walter W. S.

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American art historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Pamplona, Spain, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1949 May 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526748 ...

Dinsmoor, William Bell, 1886-1973

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Epithet: of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x00037d Librarian. Dinsmoor, the third Librarian (1920-1926) of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, bought the unpublished manuscript of the 6th book of DESIGNS FOR DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE by the Italian architect, Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554), for the Avery Library and planned to publi...

Frick Collection

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Pittsburgh industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) bequeathed his New York home, furnishings and works of art to be established as a public art gallery, The Frick Collection. In 1931, upon the death of Mr. Frick's wife, Adelaide, the Board of Trustees began the process of converting the Frick residence at One East 70th Street into a public museum, and constructing a new building for the Frick Art Reference Library. Frederick Mortimer Clapp was hired as an adviser on the proj...