Past

  • Jean-Antoine Houdon: Eight Portrait Busts

    June 10, 1981 to August 9, 1981

  • Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain

    June 4, 1980 to August 3, 1980

  • Tiepolo Punchinello Drawings

    January 22, 1980 to March 30, 1980

  • Abraham Miller, Woodcarver

    October 16, 1979 to December 30, 1979

    Visitors to The Frick Collection had the unusual opportunity of viewing a number of woodcarvings by Abraham Miller, a craftsman who worked on the decoration of the rooms in the Collection. A striking example of such decorative woodwork is the chimney piece ornamented with garlands of flowers and foliage in the Library. Fifteen works were assembled, five of which had recently been given to the Collection by the artist’s widow, Rose Miller of Bloomfield, New Jersey. The gift includes Mr.

  • Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections

    April 21, 1979 to June 3, 1979

    The Frick Collection presented an exhibition entitled "Fragonard Drawings in North American Collections," previously shown at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and at the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge. This important and beautiful exhibition, curated by Eunice Williams, Assistant Curator of Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, was comprised of sixty-three drawings by Fragonard, along with a few comparative examples of work by contemporary French artists.

  • Holbein Miniatures

    January 30, 1979 to December 31, 1979

    The Frick Collection offered the public a unique opportunity to view two miniatures by the German artist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98–1543) representing Margaret and William Roper, members of Sir Thomas More's family. The round watercolor miniatures on vellum were placed in the Living Hall beneath The Frick Collection's oil portrait of Sir Thomas More by Holbein.

  • English 18th Century Silver in The Frick Collection

    November 13, 1978 to March 18, 1979

  • Severo Calzetta, Called Severo da Ravenna

    June 22, 1978 to October 8, 1978

  • Pietà by Konrad Witz

    June 1, 1975 to August 31, 1975

    Miss Helen Clay Frick loaned this painting in the summer of 1975. She later donated it to the Frick Collection in 1981.

  • Pontormo's Portrait of a Halberdier

    June 1, 1974 to October 31, 1976

    A single picture loan exhibition of the Pontormo painting, Portrait of a Halberdier, displayed June through October each year from 1974 to 1976.