Henry Clay Frick
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Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, and later became chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company. Fri
Henry Clay Frick
Frick's letter to Carnegie, describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead
Berkman's attempt to assassinate Frick, as illustrated by W. P. Snyder in 1892, originally published in Harper's Weekly.
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Frick Collection
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The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection
Henry Clay Frick
…now designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark). He bequeathed his extensive collection of old master paintings and fine furniture to create the Frick Collection art museum. Frick was born in West Overton, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in the United States, a grandson of Abraham Overholt (Oberholzer), the…
The museum's courtyard
When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.
The Frick Art Research Library reopened in 1935.
Entrance to the Frick Collection