The Frick Collection - The Essential Guide
Editeur(s) HOLBERTON
Ean :
9781913645670
Date de parution :
15/01/2025
Résumé : This informative guide to the most iconic works in The Frick Collection’s holdings
is published on the occasion of the fall 2024 reopening of the museum following its
renovation.
From paintings and sculpture to decorative arts, this publication encapsulates the range
and depth of the collection. Organized chronologically and by geographic school, the
guide is designed to offer a sense of the connections between, and diversity among,
contemporaneous artistic production across different fields, genres, and media in earlymodern
Europe.
When American industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) built his New York home
on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he intended for it to one day become a public art
museum for the “use and benefit of all persons whomsoever.” After his death and that of
his wife, Adelaide, in 1931, the house was transformed into a museum and was opened to
the public in December 1935. The Fricks’ daughter Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984), along
with a board of trustees, was instrumental in the continuance of her father’s legacy and
the care of his bequest. Over the years, the collection grew and the number of visitors
increased, requiring renovation campaigns in the 1970s and 2020s to accommodate
these changes, the latest giving access to the public for the first time to a suite of
rooms on the second floor. Originally the Frick family’s private quarters, these rooms
are now galleries for works of art, providing space for more objects to be on view. The
scope of the collection, which spans from about 1300 to 1900, was never intended to be
encyclopedic and reflects the taste of the founder, who chose to acquire works for his
home that were “pleasing to live with.”
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