The Frick Collection is located in industrialist Henry Clay Frick’s former home at 1 East 70th Street. In the 1930s architect John Russell Pope undertook the conversion of the Frick family home into a public museum, nearly doubling its size.
In 1935, journalists wrote of the graceful mansion-turned-museum as a “legacy of beauty” where the quality of its collection was “unsurpassed anywhere.” Decades later, it remains one of New York City’s cultural treasures, drawing approximately 275,000 visitors annually to see masterpieces by Bellini, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Goya, El Greco, Holbein, Houdon, Ingres, Rembrandt, Renoir, Turner, Vermeer, Whistler, and others, as well as related special exhibitions, education programs, and concerts.
“Rooms With A View” is a ten-minute presentation about a distinctive and beautiful room of The Frick Collection. These talks are presented throughout the year free of charge, and they do not require reservations.
For more information, please visit www.frick.org.
Image and info courtesy The Frick Collection.
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