Helen Sanger

Color photograph of Helen Sanger, who died in July 2020.
Remembering Helen Sanger, Frick’s First Mellon Chief Librarian
Helen Sanger (1923–2020), the Frick Art Reference Library’s first Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, passed away in July at the age of 96. Her forty-seven-year career at the library shaped the institution profoundly, and her legacy lives on in many areas of its initiatives.