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The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick

Henry Clay Frick was an United States Robber baron and art patron, once known as "America's most hated man"....
, which was designed by Thomas Hastings
Carrère and Hastings

Carr?re and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carr?re and Thomas Hastings , located in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture list of architecture firms in the United States....
 and constructed in 1913-1914.

The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master
Old Master

"Old Master" is a term for a European painting of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such a painter. An "old master print" is an original printmaking made by an artist in the same period....
 paintings and fine furniture housed in 16 galleries within the formerly occupied residential mansion.






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The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
, New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick
Henry Clay Frick

Henry Clay Frick was an United States Robber baron and art patron, once known as "America's most hated man"....
, which was designed by Thomas Hastings
Carrère and Hastings

Carr?re and Hastings, the firm of John Merven Carr?re and Thomas Hastings , located in New York City, was one of the outstanding Beaux-Arts architecture list of architecture firms in the United States....
 and constructed in 1913-1914.

The Frick is one of the preeminent small art museums in the United States, with a very high-quality collection of old master
Old Master

"Old Master" is a term for a European painting of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such a painter. An "old master print" is an original printmaking made by an artist in the same period....
 paintings and fine furniture housed in 16 galleries within the formerly occupied residential mansion. The paintings in many galleries are still arranged according to Frick's design, although additional works have been bought by the Frick Collection over the years in a manner deemed to correspond with the aesthetic of the collection.

The collection features some of the best-known painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
s by major European artists, as well as numerous works of sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 and porcelain
Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
. It also has 18th century French furniture
French furniture

[Image:Jean-Francois Leleu - Secretaire a abattant.JPG|thumb|Secr?taire ? abattant by Jean-Fran?ois Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities...
 , Limoges enamel
Vitreous enamel

In a discussion of material science, enamel is the colorful result of fusing powdered glass to a substrate by firing, usually between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius....
, and Oriental rug
Oriental rug

An authentic oriental rug is a handmade carpet that is either knotted with pile or woven without pile. Oriental-design rugs made by machine, made through hand-tufting or any method other than hand-knotting or hand-weaving are not considered authentic oriental rugs....
s. After Frick's death, his daughter Helen Clay Frick
Helen Clay Frick

Helen Clay Frick was an United States philanthropist.She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania the third child of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick and Adelaide Howard Childs ....
 expanded the collection, with a third of its art works acquired since 1919. The Frick also oversees the Frick Art Reference Library
Frick Art Reference Library

The Frick Art Reference Library is a research library located at Fifth Avenue and 71st Street in New York City, a block north of the Frick Collection....
.

The Frick Collection's building was the inspiration for the fictional Avengers Mansion
Avengers Mansion

In the fictional Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, Avengers Mansion has traditionally been the base of the Avengers . The enormous, city block-sized building is located at 890 Fifth Avenue , Manhattan, New York City....
, which like the Frick covers the entire city block at the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 70th Street (but has the address 890 Fifth Avenue, rather than 1 East 70th Street, the address of the Frick).

Highlights

Hans Holbein D
Included in the collection are Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Jean-Honor? Fragonard was a France painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism....
's masterpiece, The Progress of Love, three paintings by Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer

Johannes or Jan Vermeer was a Dutch people Baroque painting painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life....
 including Mistress and Maid, and Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca was an Italian artist of the Italian Renaissance. To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is chiefly appreciated for his art....
's St. John the Evangelist. Other featured artists include:

  • Cimabue
    Cimabue

    Cenni di Pepo Cimabue also known as Bencivieni di Pepo or in modern Italian, Benvenuto di Giuseppe, was an Italy Painting and creator of mosaics from Florence....
  • Barna da Siena
    Barna da Siena

    Barna da Siena, also known as Barna di Siena, was a Sienese School active from about 1330 to 1350, and was the painter in Siena during this period....
  • Gentile da Fabriano
    Gentile da Fabriano

    Gentile da Fabriano was an Italy painter known for his participation in the International Gothic style.Gentile was born in or near Fabriano, in the Marche....
  • Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini

    Giovanni Bellini was an Italy Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venice painters. His father was Jacopo Bellini, his brother was Gentile Bellini, and his brother-in-law was Andrea Mantegna....
     (The Ecstasy of St. Francis)
  • François Boucher
    François Boucher

    Fran?ois Boucher was a France Painting, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture....
  • John Constable
    John Constable

    John Constable was an England Romanticism painting. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape art of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home?now known as "Constable Country"?which he invested with an intensity of affection....
  • Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
  • Aelbert Cuyp
    Aelbert Cuyp

    Aelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Netherlands landscape painting Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz....
  • Thomas Gainsborough
    Thomas Gainsborough

    Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most famous portrait and landscape Painting of 18th century Kingdom of Great Britain....
  • El Greco
    El Greco

    El Greco was a painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname, a reference to his Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek alphabet, ????????? Te?t???p????? ....
  • Francisco Goya
    Francisco Goya

    Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish Painting and Printmaking. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history....
  • Frans Hals
    Frans Hals

    Frans Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter especially famous for Portrait painting. He is notable for his loose painterly brushwork, and helped introduce this lively style of painting into Dutch art....
  • Malvina Hoffman
    Malvina Hoffman

    Malvina Hoffman , was an American sculpture, made famous by her life-size sculptures....
  • Hans Holbein the Younger
    Hans Holbein the Younger

    Hans Holbein the Younger was a Germans artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century....
  • Rembrandt
  • Andrea Riccio
  • Jacob van Ruisdael
  • Titian
    Titian

    File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
  • J. M. W. Turner
    J. M. W. Turner

    Joseph Mallord William Turner Royal Academy was an English Romanticism Landscape art, watercolourist and printmaker, whose style is said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism....
  • Anthony van Dyck
    Anthony van Dyck

    Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque painting who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English school of painting for the next 150 years....
  • Diego Velázquez
    Diego Velázquez

    Diego Rodr?guez de Silva y Vel?zquez was a Spain painting who was the leading artist in the Noble court of King Philip IV of Spain. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary baroque period, important as a portrait painting....
  • James McNeill Whistler
    James McNeill Whistler

    'James Abbott McNeill Whistler' was an United States-born, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake"....
  • Jan Van Eyck
    Jan van Eyck

    Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....


See also

  • List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
    List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

    New York City is home to hundreds of cultural institutions and historic sites, many of which are internationally known. This List of New York City lists contains the most famous or well-regarded organizations, based on their mission....
  • Frick Art & Historical Center
    Frick Art & Historical Center

    The Frick Art & Historical Center is a cluster of museums and historical buildings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. It focuses on the interpretation of the life and times of Henry Clay Frick , industrialist and art collector....
    , Pittsburgh


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