The Frick’s Museum Shop Offers Exclusive Holiday Gifts and Introduces a New Collection Guide
Museum-Inspired Publications, Custom Prints, Stationery, and Other New Products Now Available Online
New York (November 21, 2024) — This holiday season, as The Frick Collection looks ahead to its highly anticipated April 2025 reopening, it celebrates the season with a carefully curated selection of gifts inspired by its permanent collection and historic Fifth Avenue home.
Highlights from the Museum Shop include The Frick Collection—Essential Guide, a newly published, illustrated volume that offers an up-to-date exploration of the museum’s masterpieces and their refreshed display throughout the Frick mansion. Custom prints of beloved works of art and other unique items detailed below round out the new offerings, which blend elegance and artistry that art enthusiasts will be sure to treasure.
In anticipation of its spring reopening, the museum has refreshed its online shop for easy browsing and purchasing. As a benefit, members of the Frick receive a 20% discount on all purchases throughout the year, and during the annual Holiday Shopping Week—this year from November 29 through December 6—the discount is increased to 25% off all items. Additional membership benefits can be found on the museum’s website.
PUBLICATIONS
The Frick Collection—Essential Guide (Available for preorder; in stock December 10)
Reintroducing audiences to the museum’s remarkable holdings at this pivotal moment in its history, The Frick Collection—Essential Guide is a stunning keepsake and an invaluable reference for art lovers. This publication reflects the greater number of works that will be on view at the Frick’s renovated home, many in the new second-floor galleries, which were created during the museum’s current renovation and enhancement project. The volume features beloved highlights as well as more recent acquisitions, such as portrait medals and collections of porcelain. The book is authored by Aimee Ng, the Frick’s John Updike Curator, in collaboration with Marie-Laure Buku Pongo, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, and Giulio Dalvit, Associate Curator.
Showcasing paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, furniture, and more, the book is organized chronologically and is designed to offer a sense of the connections between, and diversity among, contemporaneous artistic production in Europe from the Renaissance through the late nineteenth century. Richly illustrated with new photography of works in different genres and media, this 160-page paperback is published by The Frick Collection in association with Paul Holberton Publishing.
Price: $25 (member price: $20)
Catalogues, Diptychs & Special Books
The Museum Shop offers an array of exhibition catalogues, including Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick, from the critically acclaimed fall 2023 show. Additionally, several volumes from the Frick's popular Diptych series are available. An engaging read for both specialists and general readers alike, each Diptych highlights a single work from the Frick's permanent collection, pairing an essay by a curator with a response from a contemporary artist, writer, or cultural figure. Holiday shoppers can also purchase unique publications, such as Cocktails with a Curator, and other special titles.
Prices start at $16.95 (member prices start at $13.56)
CUSTOM PRINTS
Admirers of the Frick can display a work from the collection in their own homes by ordering custom prints of masterpieces by artists from Degas to Vermeer to Monet. With a range of sizes, frames, and over seventy images to choose from, prints of favorite works can be customized to suit any space.
Prices start at $35 (member prices start at $28)
STATIONERY & GIFT WRAP
Fragonard Gilded Notepad Set
Celebrate the Frick’s famed Progress of Love series by Jean-Honoré Fragonard with an elegant set of four boxed notepads that capture the four stages of love: The Pursuit, The Meeting, The Lover Crowned, and Love Letters. Each notepad is crafted with gilded edging. The box has a grosgrain interior ribbon, bringing a touch of romance and luxury to the set, making it a festive holiday gift. Available as a set or individually.
Price: $36 for the boxed set of four, individually $9.95 (member price: $28.80 for the boxed set of four, individually $7.96)
Women of the Frick Notebooks
This new set of three notebooks features captivating portraits of female sitters in the collection: Portrait of a Woman by Giovanni Battista Moroni, Comtesse d’Haussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Julia, Lady Peel by Thomas Lawrence. With alternating blank and ruled pages, these notebooks with sewn bindings are perfect for both writing and sketching. Available as a set or individually.
Price: $20 for the set of three, individually $8 (member price: $16 for the set of three, individually $6.40)
Gift Wrap Inspired by the Frick’s Historic Textiles
Present your gifts with flair by wrapping them in elegant paper reminiscent of textiles found in the historic Frick mansion. This beautiful gift wrap takes its inspiration from the red fabric that adorned the walls of Henry Clay Frick’s private sitting room. Woven originally in 1914 by the Manufacture Prelle, a sixth-generation artisanal silk manufactory in Lyon, France, the wallcoverings were meticulously recreated by the same firm as part of the current renovation project. Each set of two gift wrap sheets is accompanied by four die-cut gift tags.
Price: $17 (member price: $13.60)
OTHER NEW PRODUCTS
Vermeer’s Officer and Laughing Girl Jigsaw Puzzle
Bring Vermeer’s luminous painting Officer and Laughing Girl into your home with this delightful 500-piece jigsaw puzzle. Known for his masterful portrayal of light, Vermeer captures in this scene a young woman conversing with a suitor against a beautifully rendered interior. This closer look at the artist’s work is an ideal gift for art and puzzle enthusiasts.
Price: $25 (member price: $20)
Frick-Inspired Chocolate Tins
When the Frick family resided at 1 East 70th Street, they were frequent customers of the chocolatier Louis Sherry. The company continues to provide the same high-quality chocolate in elegant collectible tins. Filled with luscious chocolate truffles, these gorgeous tins were exclusively made for the Frick and feature a detail from the collection’s Pot-pourri à Vaisseau, one of the greatest works created by the Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory.
Price: $42 for the twelve-piece tin, $16 for the two-piece tin (member price: $33.60 for the twelve-piece tin, $12.80 for the two-piece tin)
Masterpiece Scarves
Wool scarves from Wallace Sewell spotlighting favorite works from the Frick’s permanent collection have long been bestsellers in the Museum Shop. The two newest designs feature François Gérard's portrait of Camillo Borghese and Thomas Gainsborough’s portrait of the Honorable Frances Duncombe. Based in the United Kingdom, Wallace Sewell seamlessly fuses traditional craftsmanship with modern production, proudly upholding its commitment to manufacturing exclusively in the British Isles.
Price: $90 per scarf (member price: $72 per scarf)
To ensure delivery in time for the holidays, orders should be placed no later than December 16, 2024.
As we approach the Frick’s April reopening, more products will be added to the shop’s inventory. The new shop—a gift of The Selz Foundation—will occupy a spacious, purpose-built space on the museum's second floor, overlooking the 70th Street Garden.
Image: Puzzle of Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl; Photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.