Internships at The Frick Collection and The Frick Art Reference Library
The Frick Collection and The Frick Art Reference Library (located around the corner from the museum at 10 East 71st Street) each offers summer internships for undergraduate students majoring in art history. The Library also offers internships for graduate students of Library Science. Positions are unpaid and students must provide their own housing. The hours are generally 10:00 a.m. to 4 p.m., four days a week from mid-June to mid-August, but times and dates can be arranged to accommodate the students' schedules.
The Collection's interns will work closely with the small curatorial staff on various projects, which may include research on works in the museum, temporary exhibitions, inventory, and the organization and maintenance of files. The intern will have the opportunity to become familiar with the collection, which includes masterpieces of European painting, major works of sculpture, eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelain, Limoges enamels, Chinese porcelain, and Oriental rugs. The curatorial intern will also have access to The Frick Art Reference Library — one of the leading art research centers of the world — to which undergraduates are not normally admitted. Some knowledge of French, German, or Italian is helpful.
The Library's art history interns will assist in research projects, primarily related to new acquisitions in the photoarchive that currently holds more than one million images of American and European paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Assignments will fall into two categories: preliminary data processing and annotation of photographs and reproductions with information on attribution and current ownership and filing of those reproductions. Library Science students will assist the Book Department with projects related to cataloging and collection management.
- Students interested in an internship in the curatorial department should send a cover letter and résumé to the Internship Coordinator, The Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, NY 10021.
- Students interested in a library art history internship should send a cover letter and résumé to Louisa Wood Ruby, Head of Photoarchive Research, The Frick Art Reference Library, 10 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021.
- Graduate students of Library Science should send a cover letter and résumé to Rodica Tanjala Krauss, Head of Cataloguing Projects, The Frick Art Reference Library, 10 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021.
All materials should be received no later than March 14, 2008. Please include the name and telephone number of one professor and one former employer who may be contacted for a reference. The final candidates will be called for interviews in early April, and a decision will be reached by the middle of the month.
No phone calls please. For questions, please send an e-mail to internships@frick.org.
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