Frick Collection - wikipedia Frick Collection This article is about the New York City museum. For the Pittsburgh museums, see Frick Art & Historical Center and Frick Fine Arts Building. Location in Manhattan Established 1935 Location 1 East 70th Street Manhattan, New York City Coordinates 40 ° 46 ′ 16 '' N 73 ° 58 ′ 02 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.7712 ° N 73.9673 ° W ﻿ / 40.7712 ; - 73.9673 Coordinates : 40 ° 46 ′ 16 '' N 73 ° 58 ′ 02 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 40.7712 ° N 73.9673 ° W ﻿ / 40.7712 ; - 73.9673 Type Art Director Ian Wardropper Public transit access Subways : ​ at 68th Street -- Hunter College station Buses : M1, M2, M3, M4, M66, M72, M98, M101, M102, M103 Website http://www.frick.org The Frick Collection is an art museum located in the Henry Clay Frick House on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City at 1 East 70th Street, at the northeast corner with Fifth Avenue. It houses the collection of industrialist Henry Clay Frick ( 1849 -- 1919 ). Contents 1 History 2 Collection 3 Temporary Exhibits 4 Frick Art Reference Library 5 Management 5.1 Attendance 5.2 Governance 5.3 Funding 6 Artworks 7 Selected highlights 8 See also 9 References 10 External links History See also : Henry Clay Frick House Henry Frick started his substantial art collection as soon as he started amassing his fortunes. A considerable amount of his art collection is located in his former residence `` Clayton '' in Pittsburgh, which is today a part of the Frick Art & Historical Center. Another part was given by his daughter and heiress Helen to the Frick Fine Arts Building, which is on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The family did not permanently move from Pittsburgh to New York until 1905. Henry Frick initially leased the Vanderbilt house at 640 Fifth Avenue, to which he moved a substantial amount of his collection. He had his permanent residence built between 1912 and 1914 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings. He stayed in the house until his death in 1919. He willed the house and all of its contents, including art, furniture, and decorative objects, as a public museum. His widow Adelaide Howard Childs Frick, however, retained the right of residence and continued living in the mansion with her daughter Helen. After Adelaide Frick died in 1931, the conversion of the house into a public museum started. John Russell Pope altered and enlarged the building in the early 1930s to adapt it to use as a public institution. It opened to the public on December 16, 1935. Various additions to the architecture and landscape architecture of the museum site have been considered over the years including the placement of a prominent magnolia garden from the 1930s. As stated by the museum announcements : `` As a result of a decision of the Board of Trustees in 1939, three magnolias were selected for the Fifth Avenue garden. The two trees on the lower tier are Saucer Magnolias ( Magnolia soulangeana ) and the species on the upper tier by the flagpole is a Star Magnolia ( Magnolia stellata ). '' Further expansions of the museum took place in 1977 and in 2011. In 2014, the museum announced further expansion plans, but came up against community opposition because it would result in the loss of a garden. The Frick ultimately dropped those plans and is said to be considering other options. Collection The Frick is one of the pre-eminent small art museums in the United States, with a high - quality collection of old master paintings and fine furniture housed in nineteen galleries of varying size within the former residence. Frick had intended the mansion to become a museum eventually, and a few of the paintings are still arranged according to Frick 's design. Besides its permanent collection, the Frick has always organized small, focused temporary exhibitions. The collection features some of the best - known paintings by major European artists as well as numerous works of sculpture and porcelain. It also has 18th - century French furniture, Limoges enamel, and Oriental rugs. After Frick 's death, his daughter, Helen Clay Frick, and the Board of Trustees expanded the collection : nearly half of the collection 's artworks have been acquired since 1919. Although the museum can not lend the works of art that belonged to Frick, as stipulated in his will, The Frick Collection does lend artworks and objects acquired since his death. Included in the collection are Jean - Honoré Fragonard 's masterpiece The Progress of Love, three paintings by Johannes Vermeer including Mistress and Maid, two paintings by Jacob van Ruisdael including Quay at Amsterdam, and Piero della Francesca 's St. John the Evangelist. Temporary exhibits The Frick is known to have extraordinary temporary exhibits. When the Mauritshuis was under reconstruction, key and rare works like Vermeer 's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Fabritius 's The Goldfinch toured the United States, and was exhibited at the Frick in 2013 as opposed to other venues available in New York City. Frick art Reference library See also : Frick Art Reference Library The Frick Collection oversees the nearby Frick Art Reference Library. The collections held at the library focus on art of the Western tradition from the fourth century to the mid-twentieth century, and chiefly include information about paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and illuminated manuscripts. Archival materials augment its research collections. Opened in 1920, the library quickly became a prime resource for students. Management Attendance According to The Art Newspaper, the Frick Collection has a typical annual attendance of 275,000 to 300,000. Governance In 2011, Ian Wardropper succeeded Anne Poulet, who had run the Frick Collection as director since 2003. Poulet took the position after Samuel Sachs II stepped down after running the institution for six years. Poulet was the first female director of the Frick. During her time at the Frick Collection, Poulet increased the museum 's small board of trustees, adding 10 new members. She also introduced the Director 's Circle, a group of 44 members who each give a minimum of $25,000 a year to the Frick Collection, although many have made significantly larger contributions. Funding By 1997, the Frick Collection had an operating budget of $10 million and an endowment of $170 million. Despite its large endowment, the institution still needs money to preserve the building. Artworks Main article : Catalogue of Artworks at the Frick Collection Featured artists include : Giovanni Bellini ( St. Francis in Ecstasy ) François Boucher Cimabue John Constable Jean - Baptiste - Camille Corot Aelbert Cuyp Jacques - Louis David Gentile da Fabriano Jean - Honoré Fragonard El Greco Thomas Gainsborough Francisco Goya Frans Hals Malvina Hoffman Hans Holbein the Younger Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Rembrandt Pierre - Auguste Renoir Andrea Riccio Jacob van Ruisdael Barna da Siena Titian J.M.W. Turner Diego Velázquez Anthony van Dyck Jan van Eyck James McNeill Whistler Selected highlights Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1478 Titian, Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, c. 1516 Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Thomas More, 1527 Hans Holbein the Younger, Thomas Cromwell, 1532 or 1533 Agnolo di Cosimo, Portrait of Ludovico Cappon, 1551 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Three Soldiers, 1568 El Greco, Saint Jerome, c. 1590 -- 1600 Diego Velázquez, King Philip IV of Spain, 1644 Rembrandt, The Polish Rider, 1655 Rembrandt, Self - Portrait, 1658 Jan Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl, 1657 Jan Vermeer, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, 1658 -- 1661 Jan Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, 1667 François Boucher, The Four Seasons ( Spring ), 1755 François Boucher, The Four Seasons ( Summer ), 1755 François Boucher, The Four Seasons ( Autumn ), 1755 François Boucher, The Four Seasons ( Winter ), 1755 Jean - Honoré Fragonard, The Secret Meeting, 1771 Jean - Honoré Fragonard, The Progress of Love - Love Letters, 1771 - 1772 Francisco Goya, The Forge, 1817 J.M.W. Turner, The Harbor of Dieppe, 1826 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Louise de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, 1845 Pierre - Auguste Renoir, Mother and Children ( La Promenade ), 1875 -- 76 James McNeill Whistler, Harmony in Pink and Grey ( Portrait of Lady Meux ), 1881 See also Sèvres pot - pourri vase in the shape of a ship Cooper -- Hewitt, National Design Museum References Notes ^ Jump up to : `` Frick Collection : About ''. ARTINFO. 2008. Archived from the original on 2008 - 10 - 05. Retrieved 2008 - 07 - 28 Jump up ^ Frick online library. Description of architecture and landscape architecture. ( 1 ). Jump up ^ Pogebrin, Robin ( June 9, 2014 ) `` Frick Seeks to Expand Beyond Jewel - Box Spaces '' The New York Times Jump up ^ Pogebrin, Robin ( November 9, 2014 ) `` Frick 's Plan for Expansion Faces Fight Over Loss of Garden '' The New York Times Jump up ^ Pogebrin, Robin ( June 3, 2015 ) `` Frick Museum Abandons Contested Renovation Plan '' The New York Times ^ Jump up to : Carol Vogel ( September 7, 1998 ), Director Tries Gentle Changes For the Frick New York Times. Jump up ^ `` Jacob van Ruisdael ''. Frick Collection. Jump up ^ Past Exhibition : Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals Jump up ^ John Russell ( November 10, 1984 ), Helen Clay Frick Dies At 96 New York Times. Jump up ^ Julia Halperin ( January 11, 2014 ), Frick 's finch lays golden egg The Art Newspaper. Jump up ^ Kate Taylor and Carol Vogel ( May 19, 2011 ), The Frick Collection Names a New Director New York Times. ^ Jump up to : Carol Vogel ( September 22, 2010 ), Director of Frick Collection Will Retire in Fall of 2011 New York Times. Jump up ^ Carol Vogel ( May 13, 1997 ), Frick Finds Its Director In Detroit New York Times. Further reading Bailey, Colin B. ( 2006 ). Building the Frick Collection : An Introduction to the House and its Collections ( PDF ). New York : Frick Collection, in association with Scala Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 1 - 85759 - 381 - 2. Retrieved 2013 - 11 - 08. Bernice Davidson, Susan Galassi. Art in the Frick Collection : Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts. Harry N Abrams. 1996. ISBN 978 - 0810919723 Scala Publishers. Frick Collection : Handbook of Paintings. Scala Arts & Heritage. 2006. ISBN 978 - 1857593280 Bernice Davidson, Edgar Munhall, Nadia Tscherny. Paintings from the Frick Collection. Harry N. Abrams. 1991. ISBN 978 - 0810937109 Colin B. Bailey. Fragonard 's Progress of Love at The Frick Collection. GILES. 2011. ISBN 978 - 1904832607 Joseph Focarino. The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue. Volume IX : Drawings, Prints, and Later Acquisitions. Frick Collection. 2003 ISBN 978 - 0691038360 External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Frick Collection. 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Question: what is the frick in new york city
Answer: an art museum located in the Henry Clay Frick House on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, New York City at 1 East 70th Street, at the northeast corner with Fifth Avenue.