January 16, 2019
Director's Blog
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Letter from the Director: Summer 2016
Director Ian Wardropper discusses the evolution of the collection, including recent acquisitions.
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Letter from the Director: Winter 2016
The Director looks ahead at the coming months and discusses an innovative education collaboration with the Ghetto Film School.
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Henry Clay Frick’s Limoges Enamels
In 1916, Henry Clay Frick converted his private office at his home on Fifth Avenue into a gallery for the collection of Limoges enamels that he had purchased from the estate of J. Pierpont Morgan for the then-staggering sum of $1,157,500. What was so compelling about these delicate, jewel-like objects that Frick paid such a high price and was willing to sacrifice his sanctuary for their display?