Frick Collection

Holbein's portrait of Thomas More is one of the highlights of the Frick Collection.

The Frick Collection is an art museum located on Fifth Avenue and 70th street, facing Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 775 KB) Summary Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in New York City. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 775 KB) Summary Frick Collection, located on the Upper East Side in New York City. ... Download high resolution version (888x1150, 1909 KB)Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. ... Download high resolution version (888x1150, 1909 KB)Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger. ... Hans Holbein is the name of two German Renaissance painters: Hans Holbein the Elder (1460-1524) Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ... Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger (1527). ... Street sign at Fifth Avenue and East 57th street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. ... Central Park (40°46′59″N, 73°58′20″W) is a large public, urban park (843 acres or 3. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ... NYC and New York, New York redirect here. ... Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist and art patron. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Carrere and Hastings, the firm of John Mervin Carrère (November 9, 1858 - March 1, 1911) and Thomas Hastings (1860 - 1929), sited in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architectural firms in the United States. ... 1913 (MCMXIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master paintings housed in 16 galleries within the former mansion. The collection features some of the best-known paintings by major European artists, as well as works of sculpture, furniture, porcelain, enamel, and carpets. The Mona Lisa is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the Western world. ... This article is about the continent. ... A sculpture is a three-dimensional, man-made object selected for special recognition as art. ... Furniture is the collective term for the movable objects which support the human body (seating furniture and beds), provide storage, and hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. ... A rare Dresden porcelain figurine Porcelain is a hard ceramic material. ... In a discussion of art or technology, enamel (or vitreous enamel, or porcelain enamel in American English) is the colorful result of fusion of powdered glass to a substrate through the process of firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius. ... A carpet is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. ...

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 François Boucher, John Constable, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Aelbert Cuyp, Thomas Gainsborough, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Frans Hals, Hans Holbein the Younger, Rembrandt, Jacob van Ruisdael, Titian, J. M. W. Turner, Anthony van Dyck, and James McNeill Whistler. The Bathers, 1765 Jean-Honoré Fragonard (April 5, 1732 – August 22, 1806) was a French painter. ... Milkmaid (1658-1660) Johannes Vermeer (October 31, 1632 - buried on December 15, 1675) was a Dutch painter, who lived and worked in Delft. ... The Baptism of Christ, 1442 (National Gallery, London) Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Early Renaissance. ... Rinaldo and Armida gained Bouchers admission to the Académie royale François Boucher (1703 in Bordeaux – May 30, 1770) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, and several... A self portrait by John Constable John Constable (June 11, 1776 – March 31, 1837) was a British artist. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter. ... The Negro Page Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp (Dordrecht October 20, 1620 - Dordrecht November 15, 1691) was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the 17th century. ... Self-portrait, painted 1759 Blue boy, painted 1770 This article is about the artist Thomas Gainsborough. ... El Greco is cool External links El Greco: Biography and Works El Greco at Olgas Gallery El Greco at Web Gallery of Art Some of his paintings [1] [2] [3] Trivia Greek composer Vangelis Papathanassiou (born March 29, 1943) published a symphonic album in 1998 called El Greco, inspired... Goya self-portrait. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Hans Holbein the Younger (c. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history and the most important in Dutch history. ... Bentheim Castle (1653) Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruysdael (or Ruisdaal) (c. ... Titian. ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (born in Covent Garden, London on April 23, 1775 (exact date disputed), died December 19, 1851) was an English Romantic landscape artist, whose style can be said to lay the foundations for Impressionism. ... Self Portrait With a Sunflower Sir Anthony (Antoon) van Dyck (*March 22, 1599 - December 9, 1641) was a Flemish painter — mainly of portraits — who became the leading court painter in England. ... Self portrait James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 14, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American painter and etcher. ...

Since Frick's death, the collection has slightly expanded, with a third of its art works acquired since 1919. The Frick also oversees the Frick Art Reference Library.

See also

• List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

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External links

• The Frick Collection official website