Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection

Center for the History of Collecting in America: Research Tools

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Research tools are understood to be essential to the study of the history of collecting. The Center, therefore, creates and maintains databases and bibliographies as the cornerstones for research in the field. These include an online directory of extant archives of dealers and collectors. The Center administers these and other research tools, creating new content for the databases and also coordinating contributions made by collaborating institutions, volunteers, and interns.

Lastly, a specific goal of the Center is compiling oral and video histories of collectors and dealers. To this end, consultation with colleagues at Columbia University and other libraries of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC) is ongoing.

Objects from archival collections in The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library. For more information, see Library: Archives.

Call for Papers

The Center for the History of Collecting in America at The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library is seeking proposals for papers to be presented at a symposium on “The American Artist as Collector, from the Enlightenment to the Post-War Era,” scheduled for March 6 and 7, 2009.

Fellowship Program

The Center is pleased to announce its fellowship program. Through its fellowships, The Center seeks to encourage research on the history of collecting in America.

We offer both short-term fellowships for junior scholars as well as senior scholars and long-term Leon Levy Fellowships for senior scholars.

Paid Archival Internship

Intern for a three-month period to work on behalf of the Center at the New-York Historical Society for a student in Library and / or Information Science, with an emphasis on archives management.