Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, 1881-1920.

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Henry Clay Frick Art Collection Files, 1881-1920.

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Correspondence, invoices, inventories, registers, handwritten notes, narrative descriptions, printed material, and some photographs document the selection, purchase, exhibition, and disposition of art works in Henry Clay Frick's collection from the years 1881 to 1919. Also includes inventories made in 1920 after Mr. Frick's death. Series I: Purchases contains the bulk of the material. Mr. Frick's association with the art dealers M. Knoedler & Co. and Duveen Brothers is documented in correspondence with Charles Carstairs, Roland Knoedler and Joseph Duveen. Additional correspondents include Roger Fry, Carel F.L. de Wild, A. De Beruete, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Edward Brandus, Virginia P. Bacon, Abraham Bredius, and Gardiner Martin Lane. Among the topics discussed are recommendations of works to consider for purchase, price negotiations, provenance, attribution, exhibitions, and conservation work. The collection also contains letters from some of the artists whose works Mr. Frick purchased, including Jules Breton, J.C. Cazin, F.D. Millet, William A. Coffin, Joseph Lindon Smith, Edmund Tarbell, Fritz Thaulow and P. Dagnan Bouveret. Also of note are files concerning works considered or offered, but not purchased, lists of works placed on approval at One East 70th Street, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition of 52 of Mr. Frick's paintings in 1910; and two catalogues of Mr. Frick's collection, from 1908 and 1915. Three files include details on the interior decoration of two rooms in the Frick residence: the Fragonard Room and the boudoir of Adelaide H.C. Frick (now the Boucher Room). They contain several letters from Carrére & Hastings and Charles Allom of White, Allom & Co.

3.31 linear feet (6 boxes, 5 bound v.)

Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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De Wild, Carel F. L., 1870-1922.

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Fry, Roger, 1866-1934

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Allom, Charles, Sir, 1865-1947.

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Knoedler, Roland F., 1856-1932.

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Bredius, Abraham, 1855-1946

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Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913

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M. Knoedler & Co

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Carstairs, Charles, 1910-

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Arthur Tooth & Sons.

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