Pitt2014.36
Henry Clay Frick
1965 (Date created)
Limestone
Relief
Sculptures
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American
A medallion of Henry Clay Frick seen in profile, based on the marble bust of H.C.Frick by Malvina Hoffman, located in the Frick Building in downtown Pittsburgh.
Located on the front limestone façade of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh's Oakland campus, this medallion is a relief portrait of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), father of Helen Clay Frick. Sculptor Malvina Hoffman was eighty years old at the time of this commission and based the relief on a 1923 marble bust she had sculpted of the steel tycoon in 1923 (located in the Frick Building in downtown Pittsburgh). Artist Bruno Mankoski completed the actual carving of the medallion from Hoffman's plaster.
Commissioned by Miss Helen Clay Frick to Malvina Hoffman for the Frick Fine Arts Building. Completed in 1965.
Malvina Hoffman, "Heads and Tales", Charles Scribner's sons, New York, 1936.
Arsene Alexandre, "Malvina Hoffman", J.E. Pouterman, Paris, 1930.
Arsene Alexandre, "Malvina Hoffman", J.E. Pouterman, Paris, 1930.
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