CULTURE AND SOCIETY

The Frick Collection

This small but important museum displays the private collection of Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), referred to by his critics as “the most hated man in America” and is housed in his former residence on Fifth Avenue, designed by architect Thomas Hastings following the French architectural style of the eighteenth century and made of Indiana limestone.
The museum opened in 1935 and over the years has continued to acquire new works and now exhibits masterpieces by artists such as Piero della Francesca (1416/1417 approx. - 1492), Giovanni Bellini (circa 1433 - 1516), Tiziano (1488/1490 - 1576), El Greco (1541 - 1614), Rembrandt (1606 - 1669), Vermeer (1632 - 1675), Gainsborough (1727 - 1788), Goya (1746 - 1828) and Whistler (1834 - 1903). There are also drawings, prints, porcelain and furniture from the Renaissance and the 18th century.
The museum also offers temporary exhibitions, concerts, lectures, symposia and educational programs that encourage a deeper appreciation of its permanent collection.
Adjacent to the museum is the Frick Art Reference Library, founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick as a memorial to her father and today is one of the leading institutions for research in the fields of art history and collecting, which includes over a million photographs, 228,000 books and 3,300 periodicals.

References

Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood. The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition. Yale University Press, 2010. pp. 483-484
Francis Morrone. The Architectural Guidebook to New York City . Gibbs Smith, 2002. pp. 299-300
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