The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.

History

Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the coke and steel industrialist, philanthropist, and art collector, left his New York residence and his remarkable collection of Western paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts to the public “for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a gallery of art, [and] of encouraging and developing the study of fine arts and of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects.” Designed and built for Mr. Frick in 1913 and 1914 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings, the mansion provides a grand domestic setting reminiscent of the noble houses of Europe for the masterworks from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century that it contains. Fine artists represented include Antico, Bellini, Constable, Corot, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Goya, El Greco, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Riccio, Titian, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, and Whistler.

Opening information

10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Sundays, Closed Mondays and holidays.

Temporary exhibitions

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  The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya

  The greatest Spanish draftsmen of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries — Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them.

  The Frick Collection

  5th October 2010 - 9th January 2011

  19th century, 17th century, 18th century, Drawing

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