2000

Exhibitions presented at The Frick Collection during 2000.
Six Paintings from the Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney on Loan from the Greentree Foundation
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The Greentree Foundation generously lent to The Frick Collection for a period of one year six master paintings from the former collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney.

painting depicting women and men standing near cave opening draped in cloths as one man descends into the dark opening.
Mantegna's Descent into Limbo, from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection
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Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) painted this small panel during the height of the Italian Renaissance, using detailed, emotion-filled images to depict the moment when Christ appears to the souls in Limbo. The original work was created for Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga in June of 1468.

The Draftsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland
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A survey of five centuries of draftsmanship by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, British, French, and German artists, this exhibition brought together seventy-three works on paper culled from the National Gallery of Scotland's premier collection of some fourteen thousand sheets.

painting of minister ice skating wearing black stockings, coat, and hat.
Raeburn's The Rev. Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, from the National Gallery of Scotland
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In another of its ongoing series of single-picture exhibitions, The Frick Collection presented Raeburn's celebrated skating minister on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Painting of portrait of king philip IV of Spain dressed in the silver-and-rose costume holding staff and broad-brimmed black hat
Velázquez in New York Museums
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To mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), The Frick Collection brought together for the first time six of the Spanish master’s portraits belonging to public collections in New York.

pastel drawing of 18th century woman wearing black and white dress seated in front of trees with powdered hair
Henry Clay Frick as a Collector of Drawings
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Marking the 150th Anniversary of the birthday of founder Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), this small exhibition drew attention to a lesser-known aspect of the broad collecting interests of the museum's founder. Ten drawings that Mr.

Michelangelo to Picasso: Master Drawings from the Collection of the Albertina, Vienna
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This major spring exhibition featured masterpieces on paper selected not only to demonstrate the superb holdings of this illustrious Austrian institution, but to chronicle the major assets acquired during the tenure of each of its directors.

A Brush with Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches
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This exhibition consisted of approximately sixty landscape oil sketches from the collection of the art historians John and Charlotte Gere.

cover of the catalogue for the exhibition Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750 with sketch of seated young woman
Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750
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This comprehensive survey of drawings by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) and some of his leading contemporaries included more than sixty-five drawings lent from public and private collections in North America.