Colin B. Bailey

Colin B. Bailey was formerly Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. His is currently Director of the Director of the Morgan Library & Museum.

 

catalogue cover of Fragonard's Progress of Love at the Frick Collection
Colin B. Bailey Wins AAMC Award
 

Color print of female clown seated on red bench with legs apart
The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark
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This exhibition presented a selection of nineteenth-century French drawings and prints from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Sheets by Millet, Courbet, Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other masters are on view.

Young woman with large pearl earring
Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis
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The Frick Collection was the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands.

oil painting of mother with two girls, one with doll
Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting
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In early 2012, The Frick Collection presented an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format, which was associated with the official Paris Salon in the decade that saw the emergence of a fully f

painting of workers on the field stacking hay with two horses in the background
George Stubbs (1724-1806): A Celebration
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George Stubbs (1724–1806): A Celebration, an exhibition of approximately twenty paintings by the celebrated artist, came in early 2007 to The Frick Collection, its only North American venue.

Dark blue and gold mounted porcelain vase
Rococo Exotic: French Mounted Porcelain and the Allure of the East
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In mid eighteenth-century France, elaborately mounted Asian porcelains were at the height of fashion. More Far Eastern porcelains with gilt bronze mounts were produced in the period between 1740 and 1760 than at any other point in European history, and Paris was the center of this phenomenon.

oil painting depicting biblical scene of the sacrifice of Isaac, showing man being interrupted by angel before killing young boy, circa 1527
Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art
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For many years, The Frick Collection has offered its visitors the chance to view important Old Master paintings from American institutions outside the New York area. In keeping with this tradition, the Frick presented fourteen extraordinary works from the renowned Cleveland Museum of Art.

catalogue cover of From Callot to Greuze depicting drawing of nude man in profile holding shell
From Callot to Greuze: French Drawings from Weimar
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During the spring and summer of 2005, The Frick Collection presented a selection of approximately seventy drawings from the Schlossmuseum and the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar, Germany, offering visitors a unique opportunity to view many works that have never before been exhibited outside the former Eastern bloc coun

Painting of head and shoulders of brown haired man in three quarter view, landscape in background
Memling's Portraits
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Memling’s Portraits, The Frick Collection’s special fall exhibition, offered the most comprehensive gathering to date of works in this genre by the celebrated Netherlandish artist Hans Memling (c. 1435-1494). Memling’s oeuvre comprises some one hundred paintings, of which thirty are portraits.

The Drawings of François Boucher
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Celebrating the tercentenary of the artist's birth, this exhibition was the first survey of François Boucher's (1703–1770) drawings in more than twenty-five years.