The Frick Collection - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Frick Collection. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Luigi Valadier “Splendor in Eighteenth-Century Rome”
Of the many artists who flourished in Rome during the eighteenth century, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) was particularly admired by popes, royalty, and aristocrats across Europe. Luigi Valadier:...More »
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“Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection” Exhibition
The exhibition in the Portico Gallery presents a promised gift to the Frick Collection: seventy-five objects from the collection of Sidney R. Knafel — the finest collection of French faience in private...More »
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Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Jan Vos “The Charterhouse of Bruges”
For the first time in twenty-four years and only the second time in their history, two masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting commissioned by the Carthusian monk Jan Vos are reunited. These works,...More »
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“Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France” Exhibition
It would be difficult to think of an artist further removed from the muck and misery of war than Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), who is known as a painter of amorous aristocrats and melancholy actors....More »
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“Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection” Exhibition
The Frick presents a year-long exhibition exploring the complex history of making, collecting, and displaying porcelain. Included are about one hundred pieces produced by the renowned Royal Meissen manufactory,...More »
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“Leighton’s Flaming June” Exhibition
At the end of his career, the British artist Frederic Leighton painted the now-iconic image of a sleeping woman in a vivid orange gown. This nineteenth-century masterpiece embodies the modern philosophy...More »
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“Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection” Exhibition
Depicting quotidian life in the country, urban scenes, and imagined views of timeless Arcadian realms, this selection of rarely exhibited landscape drawings from the Frick’s small but superb collection...More »
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“From Sèvres to Fifth Avenue: French Porcelain at The Frick Collection”
Between 1916 and 1918, Henry Clay Frick purchased several important pieces of porcelain to decorate his New York mansion. Made at Sèvres, the preeminent eighteenth-century French porcelain manufactory,...More »
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“A masterpiece of comic fiction, Cervantes’s Don Quixote” Exhibition
A masterpiece of comic fiction, Cervantes’s Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) enjoyed great popularity from the moment it was published, in two volumes, in 1605...More »
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Francesco Mazzola “The Poetry of Parmigianino’s Schiava Turca”
Born in Parma and known as Parmigianino after his native city, Francesco Mazzola (1503–1540) lived only thirty-seven years, yet his eloquent, innovative art inspired his contemporaries to name him “Raphael...More »
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“Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion” Exhibition
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) and Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738–1814), were two of the foremost sculptors in France during the late eighteenth century, and the Frick houses an important group of...More »
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“Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection” Exhibition
This winter and spring the Frick will present Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection, thirty-three statuettes that represent Janine and J. Tomilson Hill’s more than twenty-year engagement...More »
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“Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection” Exhibition
The Frick Collection has one of the most important public collections of European timepieces in the United States, much of it acquired through the 1999 bequest of the New York collector Winthrop Kellogg...More »
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"Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis" Exhibition
The Frick Collection is pleased to announce that in the fall of 2013, it will be the final venue of an American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. This prestigious...More »
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"The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark" Exhibition
This exhibition presents a selection of nineteenth-century French drawings and prints from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Sheets by Millet, Courbet, Degas,...More »
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Piero della Francesca Exhibition
Revered in his own time as a 'monarch' of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13-1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection will...More »
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"Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection" Exhibition
Today the question "What time is it?" is quickly answered by looking at any number of devices around us, from watches to phones to computers. For millennia, however, determining the correct time was not...More »
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"Van Gogh's Portrait of Peasant (Patience Escalier)" Exhibition
The Frick Collection will present Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier). The painting has not left its home institution, the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena, CA, in nearly forty...More »
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"Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery" Exhibition
In keeping with its tradition of exhibiting masterworks from collections outside of New York, the Frick will present fifty-eight drawings from The Courtauld Gallery, London. This exhibition marks the first...More »
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"Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court" Exhibition
Johann Christian Neuber (1736-1808) was one of Dresden's most famous goldsmiths. Sometime before 1775 he was named court jeweler to Friedrich Augustus III, elector of Saxony, and in 1785 he was appointed...More »
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"Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes" Exhibition
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes is the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455–1528). As sculptor to the Gonzaga courts...More »
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"A Passion for Drawings" Exhibition
In late 2010 a generous bequest of ten drawings was made to the Frick by the estate of its former Director Charles Ryskamp. During his tenure at the museum, Ryskamp — an avid collector of works on paper...More »
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"Renoir, Impressionism, and the Full-Length Format" Exhibition
The Frick Collection presents an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format,...More »
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"White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain" Exhibition
Visitors to The Frick Collection will be able to enjoy a new gallery — the first major addition to the museum's display spaces in nearly thirty-five years. The inspiration for this initiative, which involves...More »
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Pablo Picasso "Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition"
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century. The Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., have co-organized...More »
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"Summer Night at the Frick Collection" Event
Join us for a free after-hours viewing of the Frick’s two summer exhibitions, “In a New Light: Bellinfs St. Francis in the Desert” and “Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette”, with opportunities...More »
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"Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette" Exhibition
By the late eighteenth century, France had long been fascinated by the Ottoman empire. Trade with Turkish territories had gone on for centuries, bringing precious velvets, brocades, carpets, arabesque-decorated...More »
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Giovanni Bellini "In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert"
One of the most beloved paintings at The Frick Collection, St. Francis in the Desert (c. 1480) by Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) is also a deeply enigmatic masterpiece. The artist has imagined this medieval...More »
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"Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections" Exhibition
On display in the Oval Room will be five paintings from the Frick's permanent collection — four acquired by Henry Clay Frick between 1899 and 1919 and the fifth by the trustees in 1943 from the collection...More »
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Diego Rodr’guez de Silva y Velázquez "The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV"
Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements. Contemporary chronicles as well as bills and invoices in Spanish...More »
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"The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya" Exhibition
The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century — Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them — created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be...More »
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"From Mansion to Museum: The Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years" Exhibition
It was the desire of Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) that his extraordinary art collection and magnificent home at 1 East 70 Street be opened as a museum following his family's period of residence. After...More »
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"Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery" Exhibition
The Frick Collection presents Watteau's Les Plaisirs du bal, now on view in the museum's North Hall. The painting — considered to be one of the artist's most beautiful — is one of nine works from Dulwich...More »
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"Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection" Exhibition
An avid collector of works on paper from the age of fifteen, and an art historian whose scholarship continues to be cited today, Frits Lugt (1884–1970) played a formative role in the history of graphic...More »
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"Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop" Exhibition
Although it was not until 2008 that the first piece of maiolica entered The Frick Collection, it was an extraordinary debut: a large dish painted with a narrative scene, or istoriato, inspired by Marcantonio...More »
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"Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection" Exhibition
Between 1914 and 1919, Henry Clay Frick acquired twenty works by James McNeill Whistler: five paintings, three pastels, and twelve prints, a remarkable ensemble that represents the breadth of Whistler’s...More »
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"Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum" Exhibition
The Frick Collection presents a selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. The exhibition will afford New York and East Coast...More »
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Andrea Riccio "Renaissance Master of Bronze"
The Frick Collection presents the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), one of the most creative sculptors of the Renaissance. On view will be thirty-one autograph works...More »
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Johannes Vermeer "Vermeers Reunited"
Particularly beloved among the paintings at The Frick Collection are its three works by Johannes Vermeer (1632– 1675), Officer and Laughing Girl (left), Mistress and Maid (center), and Girl Interrupted...More »
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"The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710–50" Exhibition
The Frick Collection is exhibiting a selection of Meissen porcelain from the collection of Henry Arnhold. One of the greatest private holdings of early Meissen assembled in the twentieth century, the collection...More »
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"Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice" Exhibition
Parmigianino’s Antea will be on view at The Frick Collection beginning January 29, on special loan from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. It is the first time the painting has been exhibited in the United...More »