Past

Landscape painting of mountains with trees in the foreground
Romantics, Neoclassicists, Realists: European Drawings from the Stanford University Museum of Art
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The Stanford Museum collection of drawings was one of the largest such university collections in the country, distinguished particularly for its holdings in works from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

exhibition catalogue cover with pencil sketch of cathedral by Constable.
John Constable: Drawings, Oil Sketches and Paintings from a Private Collection
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An exhibition of approximately one hundred works by John Constable (1776–1837) was devoted to his primary interest, landscape. The assembled group, spanning the artist's entire career, came from a private collection; virtually none of the works had been previously shown in this country.

image of gold medal depicting Queen Elizabeth.
The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance
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The first major survey in America on the art of the Renaissance portrait medal, on display in the Garden Court.
cover of exhibition catalog showing 18th century people standing on a beach with ships in the distance
Eighteenth-Century Dutch Watercolors from the Rijksmuseum Printroom, Amsterdam
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More than seventy watercolors from the print room of the Rijksmuseum were on view at The Frick Collection. The exhibition comprised supreme examples of one very special form of art from Holland's so-called Silver Age (1700–1800): the watercolor drawing. The selection made by Dr. J. W.

French Renaissance Furniture and Old Master Drawings & Prints in The Frick Collection
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An exhibition of French Renaissance furniture and Old Master prints and drawings belonging to The Frick Collection.

image of blue and white porcelain teapot with four legs.
Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in The Frick Collection

In 1965 Childs Frick, son of Henry Clay Frick, left by bequest 220 pieces of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain that he and his wife had purchased over many years. They had chosen the pieces as birthday and Christmas presents and displayed them in thier home in Roslyn, Long Island.

painting of interior with piano and breakfast table, and paintings hing on the walls salon-style.
An Album of Nineteenth-Century Interiors: Watercolors from Two Private Collections
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An exhibition composed of watercolors illustrating more than sixty nineteenth-century interiors, from cottages to palaces.

Bronze sculpture of standing Hercules, naked except for animal skin draped across one shoulder
Italian Art at the Close of the Quattrocento: Pollaiuolo and Hercules
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A focused exhibition placing a Hercules attributed to Antonio del Pollaiuolo in the collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin side by side with the Frick's own bronze Hercules attributed to the same artist. Questions of the authorship and dating of both pieces were considered.

impressionistic painting of flower garden
Vincent van Gogh, Flowering Garden
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Vincent van Gogh's luminous landscape, Flowering Garden, executed by the artist at Arles in the summer of 1888, was placed on loan by a private foundation for a two-year period.

Painting of lively feasting scene with figures around a table and dogs in the foreground.
Nicolas Lancret, 1690–1743
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The first exhibition devoted entirely to the work of this long-neglected French Rococo master who during his lifetime was one of Europe’s most celebrated artists.