January 16, 2019
All Blogs
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Staff Favorites: Cave Dweller
Christopher Snow Hopkins, Assistant Editor, looks closely at the barefoot cave dweller in Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert: “The forest was his chapel, the birds his parishioners.” -
Staff Favorites: A Painter, Painted
Mikhail Shklyarevsky, Acquisitions Assistant, Frick Art Reference Library, observes that the stern countenance of the sitter in Van Dyck’s portrait of Frans Snyders is the look of a person who has gained wisdom through hardship. -
Staff Favorites: Northern Baroque 400
Payton Goad, Executive Assistant, Frick Art Reference Library, vowed to work with Old Masters after seeing Vermeer’s Officer and Laughing Girl when she was a senior in college: “In my eyes, nothing else could compare.” -
Staff Favorites: Monster Slayer
Lorenzo De Los Angeles III, Reference Assistant, Frick Art Reference Library, considers the French seventeenth-century bronze Hercules and the Hydra in the context of the 1963 sci-fi flick Jason and the Argonauts. -
Staff Favorites: Forging My Way
Isabel Losada, Manager for Membership, didn’t hesitate when asked during a job interview, “What work of art best illustrates your work ethic?” Her answer: Goya’s depiction of three metalworkers engaging in intense labor. -
Staff Favorites: I Thought That Guy Looked Familiar
Liz Daly, Community Relations Manager, had an epiphany some years ago while looking at El Greco’s St. Jerome: That guy looks exactly like Samuel Beckett. -
Staff Favorites: A Blind Date at the Frick
Monica Sands, Sales Associate, Retail and Visitor Services, imagines her parents stopping to look at Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl during a blind date at The Frick Collection in the mid-1950s. -
Staff Favorites: From Comics to the Dutch Golden Age
Tommy Mishima, Museum Shop Inventory Coordinator, recalls seeing Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait in a children’s encyclopedia when he was eight years old. Ten years later, he came face-to-face with the painting for the first time. -
85 Frick Facts for 85 Years
In celebration of The Frick Collection’s eighty-fifth anniversary, commemorating the museum’s opening to the public in December 1935, explore a list of surprising Frick facts—one for each of our eighty-five years—and put your Frick knowledge to the test. -
More Than a Museum: Early Responses to The Frick Collection
On the occasion of the museum’s 85th anniversary, discover the colorful early press reactions to The Frick Collection’s 1935 opening.
