Access
The Photoarchive collection is available in the Reading Room during regular Library hours. The 420,000 mounted photographs in the collection can be accessed through a card catalog by artist name, subject, and owner. The Library’s online catalog FRESCO now provides keyword access to the research documentation for 12% of the 1.2 million photographs in the collection (mounted and not mounted) and new catalog records are being added daily. The artist files for all of the 40,000 artists represented in the collection are also accessible through FRESCO.
The Library recently launched the Frick Digital Image Archive, which provides access to 15,000 digitized negatives of works of art recorded by Library staff photographers between 1922 and 1967 in private homes and small public collections throughout the United States and in New York City galleries and auction houses. Visitors can search by keyword, browse image groups, zoom in on images, download jpeg files, and seamlessly link to the correlating FRESCO catalog records.
An additional 25,000 digitized Library negatives of works of art photographed in London auctions and in remote sites throughout Italy during the first half of the 20th century are accessible through the ARTstor Digital Library. These will be made available through the Frick Digital Image Archive in 2012.
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