CLOSINGS: Thursday, November 26, 2009, and Saturday, November 28, 2009, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
UPCOMING EVENT: December 9, 2009, Ilaria Dagnini Brey discusses her newly published book The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II with fellow author Cynthia Saltzman in the Reading Room at the Frick Art Reference Library. For more information and to sign up, see Calendar Listings.
NOTICE: The Library has moved periodicals published between 1931 and 2004, and auction catalogs published between 1996 and 2005 to an off-site storage facility. These periodicals and catalogs are not immediately available for examination and require forty-eight to seventy-two hours for retrieval.
Mission & Scope of the Collection
The Frick Art Reference Library was founded in 1920 to serve “adults with a serious interest in art,” among them scholars, art professionals, collectors, and students. The Library’s book and photograph research collections relate chiefly to paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and illuminated manuscripts from the fourth to the mid-twentieth centuries by European and American artists. Known internationally for its rich holdings of auction and exhibition catalogs, the Library is a leading site for collecting and provenance research. Archival materials and special collections augment the research collections with documents pertaining to the history of collecting art in America and of Henry Clay Frick’s collecting in particular.
For more information, see Library Collections.
Location
10 East 71st Street
(between Madison and Fifth Avenues)
New York, NY 10021
For more information, see Library Location.
For wheelchair or assisted access, see Visitor Information: Accessibility.
Contact Information
Phone: 212-547-0641
Fax: 212-879-2091
General e-mail: library@frick.org
If asking a reference question, see Reference Questions.
Reading Room Hours
Monday through Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays, September through May: 9:30a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Library Closed
Holiday weekends
Saturdays in June and July
Month of August
New Year's Day
Martin Luther King Day
Lincoln's Birthday
Presidents' Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Columbus Day
Election Day
Veterans Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
For more information, see Library: General Information.
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