Showing Henry Clay Frick by Martha Frick Symington Sanger

HardCover. Pub Date: 1998 Pages: 599 in Publisher: Abbeville Press With unprecedented access to personal letters. private family diaries. and the Frick archives at the Frick Collection in New York City and at family residences in Pittsburgh. Martha Frick Symington Sanger has written an unique and penetrating account of the life and times of Henry Clay Frick and his family. In addition. the author explains in this meticulously researched book the reasons why Frick and his daughter Helen selected the paintings. sculpture. and other items that are included in the collection.Since 1935 the magnificent act treasures of the Frick Collection have been open to the public in the New York City mansion that the family occupied. This book will enrich any visitor's experience of the Frick Collection in a way that had not been possible in previous books. The intriguing topics covered here...