Samantha Deutch

One Hundred Years at the Library: The Art of Collecting

April 3, 2023

To continue our look back at the past one hundred years of the Frick Art Reference Library, Samantha Deutch, Digital Art History Lead, considers the library’s rich holdings of private collection catalogues—integral to our understanding of works of art and the history of collecting.

ARIES: ARt Image Exploration Space

April 27, 2020

The Digital Art History Lab is proud to present ARIES, an innovative and intuitive web-based platform that allows art historians to work with digital images easily and effectively.

One Hundred Years at the Library: Mary Jane Morgan's Collection of Paintings

video still of woman's hand holding a catalog open, reads Mrs. Morgan's Collection of Paintings, New York, 1884

The Frick Art Reference Library holds perhaps the only surviving copy of the paintings catalog of Mary Jane Morgan, a New York City art collector from the late 1800s. The paintings guide is one of the library’s more than 1,600 private collection catalogs, a number of which were acquired by founder Helen Clay Frick. In this episode, Samantha Deutch, Digital Art History Lead, investigates this fascinating catalog, its use as a visitor guide to Morgan’s home, and other materials related to Morgan’s record-setting collection sale.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

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Collecting the Uncollectible: Earth and Site-Specific Sculpture was a symposium presented by The Frick Art Reference Library's Center for the History of Collecting on May 23, 2019 at The Frick Collection, New York.

The symposium was made possible through the generous support of the Robert H. Smith Family Foundation and Northern Trust.

Samantha Deutch and João Lucas Rulff da Costa: "ARIES: ARt Image Exploration Space"

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Samantha Deutch, Frick Art Reference Library and João Lucas Rulff da Costa, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University.This video is part of a series of lectures from the symposium 'SEARCHING THROUGH SEEING: OPTIMIZING COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ARTS' presented by The Frick Collection and the Frick Art Reference Library on Thursday and Friday, April 12-13, 2018.