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Monumental Works Offer a Preview of Next Year’s Exhibition

This article is reprinted from the Fall 2015 issue of the Members’ Magazine.

 

This post is adapted from an article in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of the Members’ Magazine.

This letter is reprinted from the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of the Members’ Magazine.

 

 

This letter is reprinted from the Winter 2015 issue of the Members’ Magazine.

 

Reprinted from the Winter 2015 issue of the Members’ Magazine, this article details a significant gift to the Frick’s permanent collection, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s Self-Portrait (ca. 1650–55).

Photoarchive intern Alexandra Provo and her collaborator Diana Sapanaro discuss their projects to use visualization technologies and Python scripts to make one of the Library's research tools, Spanish Artists from the Fourth to the Twentieth Century: A Critical Dictionary, accessible to the public in new ways.

One of the most popular series completed by the American illustrator Vernon Howe Bailey was his "Intimate Sketches of New York," which records the city during a period of dramatic growth — and change.

Lost or destroyed paintings are perhaps the most painful reminder of the importance of photoarchives and similar repositories of images and accompanying metadata. An unfortunate example is this portrait of a young bride.

Beginning in 1925, Helen Clay Frick hired the Italian photographers Mario Sansoni and Oreste Nesti to traverse Italy documenting in situ sculptures, paintings, and frescoes that other firms such as Anderson, Alinari, and Brogi had neglected to capture. On several occasions, staff of the Frick Art Reference Library requested photography of objects specifically related to works in The Frick Collection. See more at frick.org/blogs/photoarchive/analog_facial_recognition