More Than a Museum: Early Responses to The Frick Collection
December 7, 2020
Our renovated buildings reopen April 17, 2025! Tickets go on sale March 3.
December 7, 2020
September 14, 2020
In this installment of Untold Histories, explore the relics of the Fricks' extensive annunciator system. This network of call bells connected the family to its staff and offers a glimpse into the rhythms of domestic service at 1 East 70th Street.
July 14, 2020
Housekeeper Minerva Stone is integral to the story of those who kept the Fricks’ Gilded Age home running. Though no personal accounts survive, we can paint a picture of Stone’s larger biography, lending context to the years she spent at the crossroads of her employer’s immense wealth and majority-immigrant staff.
June 9, 2020
May 3, 2020
Between 1914 and 1919, Henry Clay Frick acquired twenty works by James McNeill Whistler: five paintings, three pastels, and twelve prints, a remarkable ensemble that represents the breadth of Whistler’s artistic activity and testifies to Frick’s taste as a collector.
Our renovated buildings open April 17, 2025.
Tickets go on sale starting March 3.
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