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Acquisitions

The Frick Collection has continued to expand its holdings in the decades following Henry Clay Frick's death in 1919. Since then, nearly half of the Collection's paintings and several important sculptures and decorative art objects have been acquired.

2001 Acquisitions

  • painting of grey clouds against a blue sky

    John Constable (1776–1837) 
    Cloud Study, ca. 1822
    Oil on paper, laid down on board
    11 1/2 x 19 in. (29.2 x 48.3 cm) 
    Framed: 17 7/8 × 25 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (45.4 × 64.8 × 5.7 cm)
    Bequest of Henrietta E.S. Lockwood in memory of her father and mother, Ellery Sedgwick and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, 2000 (2001.3.133)

    In 2001, two oil studies of clouds by John Constable were bequeathed to The Frick Collection by Henrietta E. S. Lockwood in memory of her father and mother, Ellery Sedgwick and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick.MORE »

  • painting of white clouds against a blue sky

    John Constable (1776–1837) 
    Cloud Study, ca. 1822
    Oil on paper, laid down on board
    11 1/2 x 19 in. (29.2 x 48.3 cm) 
    Framed: 17 7/8 × 25 1/4 × 2 1/8 in. (45.4 × 64.1 × 5.4 cm)
    Bequest of Henrietta E.S. Lockwood in memory of her father and mother, Ellery Sedgwick and Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, 2000 (2001.3.134)