Helen Clay Frick

Past Exhibition: Pietà by Konrad Witz

Painting of three women preparing the body of christ with two men on crosses in the background.
Pietà by Konrad Witz
June 1, 1975 to August 31, 1975

Miss Helen Clay Frick loaned this painting in the summer of 1975. She later donated it to the Frick Collection in 1981.

Past Exhibition: Paintings from the Collection of Miss Helen Clay Frick

black and white photograph of Helen Clay Frick, profile bust portrait with her hair in a loose chignon
Paintings from the Collection of Miss Helen Clay Frick
May 10, 1973 to September 9, 1973

The Frick Collection presented a special loan exhibition of Italian paintings from the collection of Miss Helen Clay Frick. Although some of these paintings, including works by Duccio, Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo, were well known to scholars, they had rarely been on public view.  Miss Frick acquired the paintings in the 1920s and early 1930s--a time when Italian primitive and particularly Sienese paintings were much sought after by collectors. The majority of the early Italian paintings in The Frick Collection were also obtained during that same time period.

What's Her Story: Helen Clay Frick

black and white photo of Helen Clay Frick, with "What's Her Story?"text overlayed

The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted millions of women in the U.S. the right to vote. The Frick is celebrating with a series of videos honoring the stories of women who made, appeared in, collected, and took care of art in this collection.