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Colin B. Bailey was formerly Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. His is currently Director of the Director of the Morgan Library & Museum.
There is a long tradition in Western European art of the full-length format. The Frick's Colin B. Bailey examines the sort of art Renoir was looking back to when, during the 1870s and early '80s, as a founding Impressionist, he chose this format to paint some of his most joyful and ambitious pictures of everyday life in the metropolis.
Between 1874 and 1885 Renoir—unlike other Impressionists—produced large-scale works in both full-length and horizontal formats in which he explored the grandeur of Parisian life, leisure, and fashion.
Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, discuss Renoir's series of dancing couples.
Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, discuss Renoir's The Umbrellas.
Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, discuss a technical examination of Renoir's The Promenade.
Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection discuss the exhibition Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting.
The Frick Collection was pleased to present a selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California that was on view in the Oval Room from February 10 through May 10, 2009. Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection introduces this exhibition.
The Frick Collection was pleased to present a selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California thta was on view in the Oval Room from February 10 through May 10, 2009. Colin B. Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection discusses this exhibition.
Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, reintroduced American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, shown exclusively at the Frick through May 30, 2010.
Exhibition on view at The Frick Collection from February 15 through May 15, 2011
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