Montias Database
A database of nearly 1,300 primary documents from the Gemeentearchief Amsterdam, containing references to more than 50,000 works of art and compiled by Yale University Professor Emeritus John Michael Montias, has been installed at the Frick Art Reference Library. The Frick is the only site to offer access to the complete version of this wealth of information pertaining to patterns of buying, selling, inventorying and collecting art in Holland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
World War II Era Provenance Research
Two finding aids pertaining to the wartime looting and restitution of works of art are now available on this Web site, in support of the Frick Art Reference Library's extensive collection of resources. One finding aid comprises a listing of books, articles, and unpublished material in the Frick Art Reference Library's collections, and another is a select list of major Internet sites for research into looted objects and collections.
Dictionary of Spanish Artists
Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary, in three volumes with a bibliography and index, was published by the Frick Art Reference Library in conjunction with G.K. Hall / Macmillan (1993-1996). The book contains entries on more than 5,000 artists and has been hailed as a work of invaluable assistance to students of Spanish art.
Funding for Conversion of Auction Sale Catalog Records
Thanks to a generous grant from the Eugene V. & Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, the Library has received funding for the retrospective conversion of 70,000 auction sale catalog records into SCIPIO, the international database for shared holdings of sale catalogs. The Frick Art Reference Library is one of the largest repositories of auction catalogs and provenance information in North America.
Funding for Frick Collection Records
Generous funding was pledged by the Patrick A. Gerschel Foundation to convert book and photograph records related to works of art in The Frick Collection to electronic form. This initiative is part of an institution-wide program to retrospectively convert text and image collections.
Funding for Spanish Book and Photograph Records
Following their generous contributions in support of Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century, the Baron and Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza have provided additional funding to develop electronic access to bibliographic and photographic records related to the Library's holdings of Spanish art.
Gift of Books from the Late Rudolf Heinemann
Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann’s library, consisting of over 1,200 titles, was donated in 1997. Much of the gift will be valued additions, while the proceeds of the sale of duplicate and out of scope material will establish a special book fund in memory of the distinguished author and connoisseur. Particularly interesting is the English edition of Wilhelm von Bode, The Complete Works of Rembrandt, 1897-1906.
Gift of Photographs from Knoedler Gallery
M. Knoedler & Company donated 17,553 photographs and 810 transparencies from their archives to the Library in commemoration of their 75th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the opening of The Frick Collection.
Gift of Books from Mrs. John Jay Ide
Especially noteworthy among gifts in 1998 were nine very rare books, including a first edition of Alexis de Toqueville De la democratie en Amérique (1835) and Almanach de Versailles, année 1786 and Almanach royal année [1782] and Josef Alexandre Campion Vues Pittoresques des principaux edifices de Paris (1787), donated by San Francisco collector Mrs. John Jay Ide.
Gift of Books from the Library of Enid Haupt
A generous gift of fifty-nine books from the library of Enid Haupt was received in 1998, including Degas, les Monotypes with text by Denis Rouart (one of 1,000 copies published in 1947) and Yves Bonnefoy, Derrière le miroir, La religion et Chagall (1962).
Gift from the Daniel B. Grossman Galleries
Notable donations to the photoarchive in 1997 included Daniel B. Grossman's gift of more than 5,000 photographs and transparencies of works of art handled by the Grossman Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe, California. Scholars of 19th-century art will particularly welcome the acquisition of these photographs.
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