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Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory.
2 feb 2024 · Childs Frick was the only surviving son of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Adelaide Howard Childs (1859-1931). The elder Frick is mostly remembered for his mansion on Fifth Avenue that he filled with art, and which became the Frick Collection after his death.
CHILDS FRICK (1883–1965) Portrait of Childs Frick by The Falk Studio, 1901. Courtesy of The Frick Collection/Frick Art Reference Library Archives, New York. Born in Pittsburgh, Childs Frick was the first of four children of industrialist Henry Clay Frick and Adelaide Howard Childs.
Childs Frick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Adelaide Howard Childs. Frick graduated from Princeton in 1905. He had a life-long interest in natural science, especially the evolution of mammals.
Over a thirteen-month period spanning 1891–1892, Henry Clay and Adelaide Howard Childs Frick lost two of their four children. A reasonable conclusion can be drawn from Frick family history that a virulent infection contributed to oldest daughter Martha’s death a week before her 6th birthday.
Driving Herself: Adelaide Howard Childs Frick's Love of Horses If you visit the Frick any time this summer, you can immerse yourself in all things horses. Through the paintings in the A Sporting Vision exhibition, you can study how galloping horses were depicted before Edward Muybridge’s 1878 motion photography technique captured their moving ...
Childs Frick (March 12, 1883 - May 8, 1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory.
