art collecting

Detail of a map pinpointing the location of Joshua Johnson’s painting “The Westwood Children."
Library Debuts Interactive Map of 20th-Century Frick Photo Expeditions

To enhance the discoverability of Photoarchive materials, the library launched a collaboration with the Center for Advanced Research of Spatial Information at Hunter College, City University of New York in 2014 to develop an interactive digital map that traces the movement of library staff and photographers as they traveled across the United States and recorded paintings and sculptures in private homes and little-known public collections.

painting of servant girl handing a letter to a seated woman in a yellow fur trimmed coat
Frick Announces a New Book Series on Collecting in America with the Publication of Its First Volume, Holland’s Golden Age in America Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals