Frick Fine Arts Building

1965-11-24

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Frick Fine Arts Building
  • Title
  • Frick Fine Arts Building
  • Creator
  • James McClain
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B004.F13.I17
  • Description
  • The Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, was designed by the architectural firm of B. Kenneth Johnson Associates in 1965. This structure is one of three Frick art buildings in the City of Pittsburgh that included the Clayton Frick’s mansion and the Frick Art Museum. The building, a prototype of Vignola’s Villa Giulia on the outskirts of sixteenth-century Rome, was constructed in the Italian Renaissance style and contains a cloistered garden, public art gallery, recital hall, classrooms, a forty-five foot high octagon capped by a pyramidal roof, and a fine arts library. Henry Clay Frick donated an unknown but yet substantial amount of money to the University of Pittsburgh. His daughter, Helen Frick, was the founder of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Pittsburgh in 1928.
  • Subject
  • University of Pittsburgh.Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Building.
    Sculpture--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Oakland (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    University buildings--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
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