1998

Exhibitions presented at The Frick Collection during 1998.
brown ink drawing of seated satyr with urn encountering a goat
Figurative Invention: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
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This exhibition presented drawings from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries that displayed several modes of depicting figures. Some were drawings of figures or costumes copied from life and intended as preparatory studies for painted compositions.

Victorian Fairy Painting
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Critically and commercially popular during the nineteenth century,  the intriguing and distinctly British genre of Victorian fairy painting was the subject of an exhibition at The Frick Collection.

impressionist painting of Vétheuil in Summer
Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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Continuing its series of single-picture loan exhibitions, The Frick Collection had on display for two months Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, hanging near the Collection's own Monet oil Vétheuil in Winter.

Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe
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The age of Goethe, Beethoven, and Kant was also a brilliant period for the visual arts in Germany.

Robert Adam — The Creative Mind: From the Sketch to the Finished Drawing
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Sixty-six drawings and watercolors by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam, his brother and partner James, and artists employed in their office were on view at The Frick Collection from December 16, 1997, through April 5, 1998.

painting of pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb
From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds
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With extraordinary generosity, the Musée du Louvre loaned one of the most celebrated icons of French art: Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds. This image of four shepherds solemnly meditating over the inscription they have discovered on a tomb — Et in Arcadia Ego (“Even in Arc