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The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The Frick Collection is housed in the former Henry Clay Frick House, which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914.
John Russell Pope altered and enlarged the building in the early 1930s to adapt it to use as a public institution. It opened to the public on December 16, 1935.
The Frick was built at a time when almost every building on Fifth Avenue above 59th Street was a private mansion, with a few private clubs and a hotel.
Amidst this wealth, Henry Clay Frick's home was among the most opulent, with private gardens both on the avenue front and in an interior courtyard.
The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master paintings and fine furniture housed in 6 galleries within the formerly occupied residential mansion.
The paintings in many galleries are still arranged according to Frick's design, although additional works have been bought by the Frick Collection over the years in a manner deemed to correspond with the aesthetic of the collection.
The collection features some of the best-known paintings by major Italian artists, as well as numerous works of sculpture and porcelain.
It also has 18th century French furniture, Limoges enamel, and Oriental rugs.[1]
After Frick's death, his daughter, Helen Clay Frick, expanded the collection, with a third of its art works acquired since 1919.
The Frick also oversees the nearby Frick Art Reference Library.
[edit] Highlights
Main article: Catalogue of Artworks at the Frick Collection
Included in the collection are Jean-Honoré Fragonard's masterpiece, The Progress of Love, three paintings by Johannes Vermeer including Mistress and Maid, and Piero della Francesca's St. John the Evangelist.
Other featured artists include:
[edit] In popular culture
- The Frick Collection's building was the inspiration for the fictional Avengers Mansion, which, like the Frick, covers the entire city block at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street, but has the address 890 Fifth Avenue, rather than 1 East 70th Street, the address of the Frick.
[edit] Selected highlights from the collection
Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1480; oil and tempera on panel; Frick Collection, New York[3]
Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Thomas More, 1527, oil and tempera on oak
Agnolo di Cosimo, Portrait of Ludovico Cappon, 1551
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Three Soldiers, 1568
El Greco, Saint Jerome, c. 1590-1600
Diego Velázquez, King Philip IV of Spain, 1644
Rembrandt, The Polish Rider 1655
Rembrandt, Self-Portrait 1658
Jan Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl, 1657
Jan Vermeer, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, 1658-1661
Jan Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, 1667
François Boucher, The Four Seasons (Summer), 1755
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Secret Meeting, 1771
Francisco Goya, The Forge, 1817
JMW Turner, The Harbor of Dieppe, 1826
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, 1845
[edit] See also
- List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
- Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh
[edit] References
- Notes
- ^ a b Frick Collection: About. ARTINFO. 2008. http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/22132/8650/about/the-frick-collection-new-york/. Retrieved 2008-07-28
- ^ Frick Collection Director
- ^ The Frick Collection
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[edit] Bibliography
Bailey, Colin B. (2006). Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and its Collections. New York: Frick Collection, in association with Scala Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 1-85759-381-2.[edit] External links
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- The Frick Collection official website
- Frick Collection, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America
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