Frick family members

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The Frick family members are prominent American industrialists and philanthropists, most notably Henry Clay Frick and his descendants, associated with the steel industry, art collecting, and major cultural institutions.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American family
academic building
art collector
art museum
art patron
art research library
environmental education center
industrialist
paleontologist
philanthropist
philanthropist
philanthropist
philanthropist
university building
urban park
associatedWith Carnegie Steel Company
Frick Art Reference Library
Frick Chemistry Laboratory
Frick Environmental Center
Frick Fine Arts Building
Frick Museum of Art
Frick Park
Homestead Strike
The Frick Collection
United States Steel Corporation
birthDate 1849-12-19
1883-03-12
1888-09-03
child Childs Frick
Childs Frick
Helen Clay Frick
Helen Clay Frick
collectionType European paintings
decorative arts
sculpture
country United States
United States
United States
United States
United States
deathDate 1919-12-02
1965-05-08
1984-11-09
father Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick
fieldOfActivity art patronage
heavy industry
museum endowment
fieldOfWork vertebrate paleontology
foundedBy Helen Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick
hasNotableMember Adelaide Howard Childs Frick
Childs Frick
Helen Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick
industry coke production
steel
knownFor chairmanship of Carnegie Steel Company
creation of The Frick Collection
donations to the American Museum of Natural History
establishing the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh
expanding The Frick Collection
founding the Frick Art Reference Library
role in formation of United States Steel Corporation
location New York City
New York City
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh NERFINISHED
Princeton University
University of Pittsburgh
mother Adelaide Howard Childs Frick
Adelaide Howard Childs Frick
namedAfter Frick Park
Frick family
Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick
notableFor art collecting
philanthropy
steel industry
placeOfBirth West Overton, Pennsylvania
placeOfDeath New York City
residence New York City
Pittsburgh
spouse Adelaide Howard Childs Frick
Henry Clay Frick

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Frick Fine Arts Building ("Frick family")
namedAfter
Homewood Cemetery
notableBurial

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