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Journal of the History of Collections Advance Access originally published online on April 7, 2009
Journal of the History of Collections 2009 21(2):229-240; doi:10.1093/jhc/fhp008
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.

This article appears in the following Journal of the History of Collections issue: Special Issue: The art collector-between philanthropy and self-glorification [View the issue table of contents]

‘I want this collection to be my monument’

Henry Clay Frick and the formation of The Frick Collection

Esmée Quodbach


  Abstract

Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), a pioneer in the Pittsburgh coke and steel industries and an enormously successful financier, amassed one of the most magnificent collections of Old Master paintings of America's Gilded Age. The Frick Collection, housed in Frick's mansion in New York City, was bequeathed to the public in 1919 and opened in 1935 as a museum. In this paper, the author explores Frick's tastes and acquisitions, and considers his aspirations, not only as a leading collector in the early twentieth century but also as the founder of The Frick Collection, which he intended to be his ‘monument’

Address for correspondence Esmée Quodbach, Center for the History of Collecting in America, The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library, 10 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021, USA. quodbach{at}frick.org


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