Martha Frick Symington Sanger is the author of Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait (1998), which was cited in August 2007 in the Wall Street Journal by Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian as one of the “five best” books detailing the live
This exhaustively researched and beautifully written work finally
brings Helen Frick out from under the shadow of her father and
recognizes her contribution to art collecting, photo archiving,
cataloguing, war relief, and women's charities. Sanger adds
immeasurably to our knowledge about the private and public lives of
elite women in America, philanthropy, family dynamics, and the
politicking that takes places behind the closed doors of museum
boardrooms." — Dianne Sachko Macleod, author of Enchanted Lives,
Enchanted Objects: American Women Collectors and the Making of
Culture
"The daughter of one of Pittsburgh's steel magnates, Helen Clay
Frick left her own legacy of philanthropy, nationally, in the art
world and in the lives of working-class women. This biography is a
valuable contribution to women's history, adding especially to the
literature on women's philanthropy during the first three quarters
of the twentieth century." — Carolyn Carson, University of
Pittsburgh
"This brilliant book reveals as never before the extraordinary life
of Helen Clay Frick, one of the twentieth century's most powerful,
elusive, and sometimes vindictive women. Her great-niece has
closely examined private family records, museum archives, and many
published accounts of events with her characteristic openness to
the truth. She has brought to light an amazing range of fascinating
issues and events and explains many of Helen Frick's attitudes that
have long perplexed her friends, foes, and the curious." — Donald
Miller, former art and architecture critic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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