Building the Frick Collection

by Bailey, Colin B.

• ISBN13: 9781857593815
• ISBN10: 1857593812
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Scala Books

Summary

Although there have been many books devoted to Henry Clay Frick and The Frick Collection, none as yet has sought to document the building at 1 East 70th Street and to explore how the creation of this residence influenced the taste of the collector in the

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	6	(3)
Prologue	9	(1)
Origins in Pittsburgh	10	(7)
The Move East	17	(5)
East 70th Street	22	(8)
The House Emerges	30	(17)
The House and Its Interiors	47	(12)
Upstairs (and Some) Downstairs: Elsie de Wolfe and Furnishing I East 70th Street	59	(11)
Enter Duveen: Morgan's Collections at I East 70th Street	70	(10)
Frick's Final Years: A Proposed Expansion and the Last Acquisitions	80	(13)
1920--35: The First Frick Art Reference Library and the Creation of The Frick Collection	93	(18)
Epilogue: Adding a Reception Hall and the 70th Street Garden	111	(10)
Select Bibliography	121	(4)
Photograph Credits	125	(1)
Index	126