Frederick Mortimer Clapp

Frederick Mortimer Clapp (July 26, 1879 – December 15, 1969) was the first Director of the Frick Collection in Manhattan, New York as well as a poet, and art historian. Clapp was the organizing Director at the Frick Collection from 1931 to 1935 and the first Director from 1935 to 1950.

Biography Frederick M. Clapp attended the City College of New York in 1896–1898, and received his B. A. and M.A. from and Yale University in 1899–1902, and at the University of Paris (Docteur ès lettres, 1914).

He taught at City College of New York. Frank also worked at Princeton University. He married Maud Caroline Ede (Clapp) (1876–1960), an artist from Florence. In 1909, Frederick began studying at the Sorbonne to receive his PhD, and began publishing poetry in 1916.

He retired in 1951. He died at a New York City Hospital at age ninety, on December 15, 1969.