Lawrence Park Diary, 1923.

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Lawrence Park Diary, 1923.

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Lawrence Park's diary of March-April 1923 trip to South Carolina to identify and photograph paintings throughout the state for the Frick Art Reference Library. Lawrence Park, Helen Clay Frick (for 3 weeks of the trip), Ira Martin, and various friends of Miss Frick made the trip. The diary is handwritten and full of enclosures. It gives a detailed account of their activities (who they met, where they went, where they stayed, what they ate, and what they saw).

0.25 linear feet (1 box).

Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection

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Frick Art Reference Library

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Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), daughter of industrialist and art collector Henry Clay Frick, founded the Frick Art Reference Library in 1920 and served as its director until 1983. Miss Frick developed a special interest in Italian art during the 1920s, making four trips to Italy during the winter of 1923-24, and in 1925, 1927 and 1928 in order to discover and record early Italian paintings and frescos, and obtain photographs of the works, either through purchase or original photography. ...

Frick, Helen Clay, 1888-1984

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Martin, Ira W. (American photographer, 1886-1960)

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Park, Lawrence, 1873-1924

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Lawrence Park attended Harvard University from 1892 to 1896 and was a practicing architect, beginning his career in Boston in 1901. As an author he wrote about colonial art. Park served as a non-resident curator in the Department of Colonial Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. From the description of Papers, 1908-1923. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 84665456 Lawrence Park (1873-1924) of Worcester and Groton, Mass., author and authority on American portraiture, wor...