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Past Exhibitions: 2009

  • Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection

    October 6, 2009 to January 10, 2010

    Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a Dutch art historian, connoisseur, and collector.

  • Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop

    September 15, 2009 to January 17, 2010

    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, oristoriato, inspired by Marcantonio Raimondi's print after The Judgment of Paris by Raphael. This scene is surrounded by colorful grotesques delicately painted on a white ground, a specialty of the renowned workshop of Orazio Fontana in Urbino, to which the best pieces are usually attributed.

  • Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection

    June 2, 2009 to August 23, 2009

    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 artistic activity and testifies to Frick’s taste as a collector.

  • Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum

    February 10, 2009 to May 10, 2009

    The Frick Collection presented a selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California. The exhibition, on view in the Oval Room from February 10 through May 10, 2009, afforded New York and East Coast audiences the occasion to see superb masterworks from the collections of the Norton Simon Art Foundation and The Norton Simon Foundation, a very special opportunity as both institutions generally do not allow their works to... read more »

  • Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze

    October 15, 2008 to January 19, 2009

    The Frick Collection presented the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Riccio (1470–1532), one of the most creative sculptors of the Renaissance. On view were thirty-one autograph works representing every phase of Riccio’s career, three bronzes believed to be derived from the artist’s lost compositions, and two life-size terracotta sculptures. Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze was shown exclusively at The Frick Collection.