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  • Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court

    May 30, 2012 to August 19, 2012

  • Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes

    May 1, 2012 to July 29, 2012

  • A Passion for Drawings: Charles Ryskamp's Bequest to The Frick Collection

    February 14, 2012 to April 8, 2012

    The Frick Collection celebrated the generosity and discerning taste of former Director Charles A. Ryskamp (1928–2010) with an exhibition of works on paper from his bequest. Dr. Ryskamp's generous gift transformed the museum's holdings in drawings, enlarging them by nearly a third, while complementing the permanent collection's focus on the landscape and figural subjects favored by Henry Clay Frick. The works were exhibited for the first time at the Frick in the Cabinet, a space created by... read more »

  • Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting

    February 7, 2012 to May 13, 2012

  • White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain

    December 13, 2011 to January 6, 2013

    New Portico Gallery Opened with Presentation of Sculpture and Selections from an Important Promised Gift of Meissen Porcelain from Henry H. Arnhold

  • Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition

    October 4, 2011 to January 8, 2012

  • Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette

    June 8, 2011 to September 11, 2011

    France has long been fascinated by the Ottoman Empire, and for hundreds of years the taste for turquerie was evident in French fashion, literature, theater and opera, painting, architecture, and interior decoration. Turquerie, a term that came into use in the early nineteenth century, referred to essentially anything produced in the West that evoked or imitated Turkish culture.

  • In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert

    May 22, 2011 to August 28, 2011

    One of the most familiar and beloved paintings at The Frick Collection, Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert (c. 1480), is also deeply enigmatic. The artist has imagined this medieval saint alone in a stony wilderness, stepping forward from his simple shelter into a golden light that seems to transfigure him spiritually. For centuries, viewers of this masterpiece have puzzled over the meaning of Bellini’s composition and have sought explanations in a variety of pictorial and... read more »

  • Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections

    February 15, 2011 to May 15, 2011

    When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a great admirer and collector of works by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669); as a teenager he wrote a biography of the artist, illustrated with... read more »

  • The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV

    October 26, 2010 to January 23, 2011

    Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements. Contemporary chronicles as well as bills and invoices in Spanish archives indicate that it was painted in a makeshift studio only a few miles from the frontlines of a battle, and that it was completed in just three sittings. The work, which shows its subject dressed in military costume, an atypical depiction, was sent to Madrid where it was used during a... read more »