Colin B. Bailey

Colin B. Bailey was formerly Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection. His is currently Director of the Director of the Morgan Library & Museum.

 

cover of exhibition catalog showing gold vase filled with lilacs, red roses, and peace lilies.
Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
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This was the first retrospective exhibition for the eighteenth-century French still-life painter Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818), a highly regarded artist who was one of the favorite painters of Marie-Antoinette.

black chalk drawings on sheet, including standing astronomical clock and various women, circa 1773
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780)
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The Frick Collection presented an exhibition devoted to the art of Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, one of the most original and innovative French artists of the Enlightenment.

three Vermeer oil paintings, including, man and woman seated at open window, woman handing paper to seated woman, and man standing over the shoulder of seated woman, circa 1600s
Frick’s Vermeers Reunited
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Particularly beloved among the paintings at The Frick Collection are its three works by Johannes Vermeer (1632– 1675), Officer and Laughing Girl(left), Mistress and Maid (center), and Girl Interrupted at Her Music (right).These rare canvases were purchased by Henry Clay Frick before his death in 1919.

oil painting of lemons, oranges, and cup on a table against black background
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Norton Simon Museum
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The Frick Collection presented a selection of five masterpieces of European painting from the highly acclaimed Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.

Oil painting of a young girl leaning out a window sill.
Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
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Dulwich Picture Gallery holds one of the world's major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paintings.

Print of a man's head.
Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections
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When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt

chalk drawing of woman in long robe reclining in chair with footrest, palm against the cheek
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection
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Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884–1970) was a Dutch art historian, connoisseur, and collector.

painting of woman in pink dress and man dancing outdoors, with others seated behind them
First Comprehensive Study of Renoir's Full-Length Canvases Brings Together Iconic Works from Europe and the U.S. For an Exclusive New York City Exhibition.
watercolor of women and man, seated, flirtatiously talking in front of fire, circa 1760
Ground-Breaking Collaboration by Frick and Louvre is the First Major Retrospective in Eighty Years on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin
photo of Colin Bailey
First Endowed Curatorial Position Created: Colin B. Bailey Named the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator