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.

 

painting of a man dressed in black at three-quarter view
Media Alert: Unprecedented and Unlikely-to-Be-Repeated Exhibition of Memling's Portraits, October 12 through December 31, 2005
Painting of portrait of a man wearing black
Frick Collection is the Exclusive U.S. Venue of the Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Memling's Portraits: A Presentation Unlikely to be Repeated October 12 through December 31, 2005
painting of a woman with two small girls in matching blue fur trimmed coats walking in a garden
Media Alert: Renoir Exhibition in Early 2012
Link to video of Colin B. Bailey delivering welcoming remarks for symposium
Welcome and Opening Remarks, Colin B. Bailey and John Marciari at The Morgan Library

Welcome and opening remarks from Colin B. Bailey, Director, The Morgan Library & Museum, and John Marciari, Charles W. Englehard Curator and Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints, The Morgan Library & Museum. This video introduces a series of lectures from the symposium A Demand for Drawings: Five Centuries of Collecting co-presented by the Center for the History of Collecting at The Frick Collection and The Drawing Institute at The Morgan Library on Friday and Saturday, March 4-5, 2016.

Link to video of Colin B. Bailey in the Frick's Fragonard Room
Colin B. Bailey presents Fragonard's 'Progress of Love'

Filmed in the Frick Collection’s Fragonard Room, this fourteen-minute video provides an in-depth look into the history of Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Progress of Love, a series of fourteen paintings considered by many to be the artist’s masterpiece. The intriguing story behind the commission, rejection, and rehousing of Fragonard’s paintings is brought to life by Colin B. Bailey, former Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick (now Director of Museums at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).

Link to video of Colin B. Bailey and Charlotte Hale lecture
Colin B. Bailey and Charlotte Hale: "Secrets of Renoir's 'La Promenade' Revealed"

"Up and Down the Garden Path: Secrets of La Promenade Revealed," by Colin B. Bailey, The Frick Collection, and Charlotte Hale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saturday, May 5, 2012.  The Frick's Promenade is the most important Impressionist painting acquired by Henry Clay Frick. In researching this well-known work for the exhibition Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting, many technical and documentary discoveries were made.

Link to video of Colin B. Bailey about Renoir for WNYC
NYC-ARTS Curator's Choice: Renoir Exhibition

There is a long tradition in Western European art of the full-length format. The Frick's Colin B. Bailey examines the sort of art Renoir was looking back to when, during the 1870s and early '80s, as a founding Impressionist, he chose this format to paint some of his most joyful and ambitious pictures of everyday life in the metropolis.

Link to video of Colin B. Bailey lecture about Renoir
Colin B. Bailey: "Renoir's Wall Power"

Between 1874 and 1885 Renoir—unlike other Impressionists—produced large-scale works in both full-length and horizontal formats in which he explored the grandeur of Parisian life, leisure, and fashion.

Link to video about Renoir
Renoir: Dancing Couples

Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, discuss Renoir's series of dancing couples.

Link to video about Renoir: The Umbrellas
Renoir: The Umbrellas

Listen to Colin Bailey, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, discuss Renoir's The Umbrellas.