Benjamin Ferris : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000 [graphic]. 1920-

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Benjamin Ferris : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1920-2000 [graphic]. 1920-

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Assembled artist file includes b&w photographs, reproductions from books and auction catalogs, and in some cases, negatives. Items may include full views, details, before and after restoration views, etc. Documentation may include artist name, title of work, medium, dimensions, provenance, exhibition history, related works, previous attributions, and bibliography.

1 folder [as of 1999] : ill. (some col.) ; 34 cm.

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. ...

Ferris, Benjamin, 1780-1867

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Benjamin Ferris was a prominent member of the Hicksite branch of the Society of Friends in Wilmington, Delaware. He was born a Quaker in 1780, the son of Ziba and Edith (Sharpless) Ferris. Benjamin Ferris married Francis Canby in 1804. Among their ten children were Deborah, born in 1813, Anna M., born in 1815, and David, born in 1821. Fanny Ferris died in 1833 and Benjamin Ferris married his second wife, Hannah Gibbons, in 1835. He died in Wilmington in 1867. From the description of ...