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January 16, 2019

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Oil painting of St. Francis on a hillside with green rocks, hands open as he looks in awe at the sky
Mapping Provenance: Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"
Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert (ca. 1475–80) is one of the Frick’s most beloved works of art, but there was a time when it could not find a buyer. Explore the ups and downs of the art market through an interactive map charting the panel’s peregrinations, from quattrocento Venice to its temporary home at Frick Madison.
Arched gilded portrait of a woman with a large afro hairstyle between two marble busts
Barkley L. Hendricks and the Old Masters
Learn more about our highly acclaimed exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick with an excerpt from Curator Aimee Ng’s introductory essay from the show’s catalogue.
A page from Edey’s annotated copy of Maurice Rheims, The Strange Life of Objects (New York, 1961)
On Time
Image depicting the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.
The Madonna of Einsiedeln
students in the Frick Collection gallery, with educator standing in front of paintings
Frick Forum
oil painting of bearded man dressed in black with white collar
Staff Favorites: A Painter, Painted
Mikhail Shklyarevsky, Acquisitions Assistant, Frick Art Reference Library, observes that the stern countenance of the sitter in Van Dyck’s portrait of Frans Snyders is the look of a person who has gained wisdom through hardship.
Fifteen women standing in a row in front of a building
One Hundred Years at the Library: A Dedicated Staff
In commemoration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Frick Art Reference Library, Sally Brazil, Barbara G. Fleischman Associate Chief Librarian for Archives and Records Management, looks back on the lifeblood of the library through the decades—its incredible staff. Discover photographs, scrapbooks, drawings, and archival materials documenting the contributions of generations of knowledgeable staff members, who have guided the library’s mission and growth over the past century.
Book stack with one cover turned out with a colorful artwork of figures and a horse in a landscape
Reading List: Arab American Heritage Month
Happy Arab American Heritage Month! Celebrate with a recommended reading list from the Frick Art Reference Library honoring the work and research of a variety of Arab American artists and scholars.
Color stipple engraving of a portrait of Thomas Keyse by John Chapman after Samuel Drummond c.1797
The Artist as Tavern-keeper

It's an interesting moment when a book dealer brings in something that neither the dealer nor you yourself quite know what it could possibly be. The item in question was an eight-page manuscript in ink, entitled Catalogue of an exhibition of paintings now exhibiting at the Lyceum Strand the whole painted by Mr Keyse. It looks like a maquette for a printed catalog, as the manuscript hand imitates typography. And it has “Kemish printer Borough” on its cover. Intriguingly, there is a date of 1827, crossed out in pencil and Nov 1797 inserted.

An advertisement for a painting of a landscape featuring a settlement of Native Americans.
Art and Advertising