At Frick Madison: Author Fiona Davis in conversation with Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon
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Fiona Davis, author of THE MAGNOLIA PALACE, discusses art, history, and writing with Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection. They speak in the Fragonard room at Frick Madison, the temporary home of The Frick Collection. Get the book: bit.ly/3LEA7kU
About THE MAGNOLIA PALACE
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City’s most impressive Gilded Age mansions.
Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter’s life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after artists’ models in New York City, with statues based on her figure gracing landmarks from the Plaza Hotel to the Brooklyn Bridge. But with her mother gone, a grieving Lillian is rudderless and desperate-the work has dried up and a looming scandal has left her entirely without a safe haven. So when she stumbles upon an employment opportunity at the Frick mansion-a building that, ironically, bears her own visage-Lillian jumps at the chance. But the longer she works as a private secretary to the imperious and demanding Helen Frick, the daughter and heiress of industrialist and art patron Henry Clay Frick, the more deeply her life gets intertwined with that of the family-pulling her into a tangled web of romantic trysts, stolen jewels, and family drama that runs so deep, the stakes just may be life or death.
Nearly fifty years later, mod English model Veronica Weber has her own chance to make her career-and with it, earn the money she needs to support her family back home-within the walls of the former Frick residence, now converted into one of New York City’s most impressive museums. But when she-along with a charming intern/budding art curator named Joshua-is dismissed from the Vogue shoot taking place at the Frick Collection, she chances upon a series of hidden messages in the museum: messages that will lead her and Joshua on a hunt that could not only solve Veronica’s financial woes, but could finally reveal the truth behind a decades-old murder in the infamous Frick family.
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Great interview
I've only just finished reading Magnolia Palace, which was wonderfully written, so this video is exactly what I was looking for. The Frick Collection is on my museum bucket list.
I read the book based on this interview. Really enjoyed the stories of the two women and how the author weaves it all together.
What a delightful conversation. Looking forward to encountering the art work and the Frick family in such a "novel" light. Thank you for highlighting this book.
Great conversation!!! Very enjoyable reading....
Thanks so much for sharing this interview. I read the book because it was set in the Frick. Enjoyed it.
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I just reserved it at my local library. Enjoyed the interview, and look forward to reading it.
No discussion that the cover of the book is completely inaccurate? The doorway the 1919 character is show entering did not exist in 1919, it is the entrance to the house once it became a museum. It would have been better to show her entering the porte cochere with the sculpture above with the 1919 figure imposed on top of a period photograph. Or hey could have shown the 1960s model entering that doorway.
Imagine how much people had suffer in Carnegie steel so he could have that collection
I am actually appalled that no mention was made of Martha Frick Symington Sanger's magnificent books on the Frick collection. The entire premise, history, and narrative were based on her works. Her biography Bittersweet Heiress on the life of Helen Frick is extraordinary and obviously the base for everything dealing with her. I am extremely disappointed that the accolades Ms. Sanger deserves were so obviously missing. A lost opportunity for the Frick collection and the viewership.