Portico Gallery
Past Exhibition: Henry Arnhold’s Meissen Palace: Celebrating a Collector, on view from November 7, 2019 to March 11, 2020
The Portico Gallery was opened in 2011. Originally a covered walkway that faced the Fifth Avenue lawn, the Portico was designed by Thomas Hastings, the architect of the mansion. The architectural firm Davis Brody Bond enclosed the original Portico on the south side with glass while preserving the existing limestone walls, Ionic columns, and ceiling to create an exhibition space for sculpture and ceramics and other decorative arts.
Archival Photographs
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Construction of the Portico, 1913
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Construction of the Portico, 1913
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Portico, 1927
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Portico, 1933
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Portico, 1933
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Portico, 1939
Virtual Exhibitions
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Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection (2018) -
Fired by Passion (2017) -
Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection (2016) -
From Sèvres to Fifth Avenue: French Porcelain at The Frick Collection (2015) -
Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion (2014) -
Precision and Splendor (2013) -
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2011)