Carnegie Institute History, Architecture, Collections

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Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Painting Collection. Pittsburgh:. Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, 1973. Frick Fine Arts Library - Reference - Museum …

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FRICK FINE ARTS LIBRARY
The Carnegie Institute:
History, Architecture, Collections
Library Guide Series, No. 40
“Qui scit ubi scientia sit, ille est proximus habenti.” — Brunetiere*
An Introduction
Andrew Carnegie, the founder of The Carnegie Institute, was an American industrialist who worked in the fields of the railroad, oil and became a baron of the iron and steel industries. During his lifetime he donated more than $350 million to a variety of social, educational and cultural causes, the best known of which was his support of the free public library movement. He gave grants for 3,000 library buildings in the English-speaking world between the late 1890s and 1917. The first Carnegie Library opened in 1889 and was built in Braddock, PA near the location of his largest steel mill. The second library opened in Allegheny City during 1890.
Carnegie most ambitious cultural creation, however, was the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh which included a library, natural history museum, art gallery, and concert hall that were designed by Alden and Harlow between 1891-1907. Fewer people outside of Pittsburgh know that Andrew Carnegie was also involved in the art world of his day, creating the Art Gallery portion of…

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