The Frick Collection

📚 The Frick Art Research Library is back! Reopened since April, the newly restored historic space features enhanced resources for art lovers, students, and researchers alike. Joey Vincennie, Reference Lead Librarian, introduces the library's many rich offerings and explains what has made it one of the world's top art history research centers, serving scholars and members of the public for generations. Stop by, settle in, and see what’s new! 🗓️ Open Monday to Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 🚪 Accessible entrance at 10 East 71st Street 📖 Register to visit our reading room—or access vast digital resources 🆓 Free of charge, with no appointment necessary ✨ Explore our collection of books, magazines, exhibition and auction catalogs, artist files, photo archives, and more! 🔗 Learn more at frick.org/library.

The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Aimee Ng as our next Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator. Aimee has been an instrumental member of the Curatorial Department since 2015. In addition to organizing exceptional exhibitions over the years, she played a pivotal role in our celebrated display at Frick Madison and in the reinstallation of our renovated galleries. Of course, many of you also know her from "Cocktails with a Curator™" and other popular video series, which have shared the Frick’s history and holdings with art lovers across the globe. She will take up her new post starting in November, when Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and current Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, leaves the Frick to become director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. We congratulate Aimee as she leads the Curatorial Department into the museum’s next chapter! 🔗 Learn more in our press release: https://bit.ly/4o820EV

“How do you paint a mural for the Frick? No pressure.” 🎨💚 The artist Darren Waterston recently completed two striking murals for the Frick’s first-ever museum café, Westmoreland. In this new video, he speaks with Xavier F. Salomon, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, about his approach to creating “imagined landscapes,” drawing inspiration from Renaissance paintings and works on paper in the Frick’s permanent collection. Watch the full video: https://bit.ly/47e7mrx

NOW OPEN: "To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum" 👑✨ This groundbreaking exhibition features more than forty opulent gifts to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher from European rulers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from liturgical objects in gem-encrusted gold and silver to richly decorated vestments in velvet and damask. These treasures are on view in the United States for the first time. Experience the show through January 5, 2026. Learn more at https://bit.ly/4nu5n99 and plan your visit at frick.org/tickets. — Installation view of "To the Holy Sepulcher: Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum at The Frick Collection," all works courtesy the Terra Sancta Museum, Jerusalem, photo: Joseph Coscia Jr.

This Friday, October 3, The Brooklyn Rail is hosting a conversation on Zoom with artist Flora Yukhnovich. She will speak with art editor Amanda Gluibizzi about her new site-specific installation at the Frick, “Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons.” Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/4gMs7id

"It’s been a long Boucher obsession, but at the moment I’m getting the chance to seriously deep-dive into his work and it’s been a full love affair.” The artist Flora Yukhnovich recently spoke with The Art Newspaper about her new site-specific installation at the Frick: “Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons.” Read the conversation at the link below, and check out her four large-scale paintings, inspired by François Boucher’s “Four Seasons,” on view in our Cabinet Gallery through March 9, 2026. https://bit.ly/48cQbZf

NEW ACQUISITIONS! 🖼️ François Boucher's "Reclining Shepherdess" and Gilles Demarteau's engraving after Boucher's work, gifts from the Collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard, are now on view in the Boucher Anteroom! Parisian patrons collected Boucher's drawings during his life, and Boucher may have made sheets like this as works of art in their own right. The artist collaborated with printmakers to disseminate his compositions to a wider clientele. This composition was translated into a print by Gilles Demarteau using the innovative technique of red chalk engraving. To the Goncourt brothers—famed art critics and collectors of the nineteenth century—“Reclining Shepherdess” (“La Bergère au coeur”) was one of the most beautiful studies made by Boucher. Discover the works in our second-floor galleries through October, and learn more about them at frick.org/art. Plus, don’t miss our special installation inspired by Boucher: “Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons,” on view now in the Cabinet Gallery. — Rococo works installed in the Boucher Anteroom, photos by Joseph Coscia Jr. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770), Reclining Shepherdess ("La bergère au Coeur"), 1753. Chalk, pastel, wash, and possibly traces of graphite on paper, 15 1/2 × 18 7/8 in. (39.4 × 47.9 cm). Both works from The Frick Collection, New York, gifts from the Collection of Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard, 2025 Gilles Demarteau (French, 1722–1776) after François Boucher, A Reclining Shepherdess (“La Bergère au coeur”), ca. 1756-76. Crayon-manner engraving, printing ink on laid paper, 17 × 21 9/16 in. (43.2 × 54.8 cm)

Calling all educators! 🍎📚 The Frick Collection is hosting an Evening for Educators on Thursday, September 18, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. School teachers, college and university faculty and staff, and other educators are invited to a special evening of free admission, gallery talks, art-making activities, and live music, with a wine reception to accompany the festivities. Frick educators and librarians will be present to answer questions and to discuss ways we can support you and your students throughout the academic year. Free with registration: https://bit.ly/3JNjCHg

NOW OPEN: "Flora Yukhnovich’s Four Seasons" 🌱☀️🍁❄️ On your next visit to the Frick, be sure to check out our new special installation, a site-specific mural created by Flora Yukhnovich in dialogue with François Boucher’s series “The Four Seasons.” Her immersive, energetic works—inspired by the French Rococo, Italian Baroque, and Abstract Expressionist movements—blend representation and abstraction, drawing from art historical traditions while boldly reinterpreting them. Yukhnovich’s new work covers the walls of the Cabinet Gallery through March 9, 2026. Boucher’s “Four Seasons” is on view nearby in the West Vestibule. 🎟️ Reserve your tickets today at frick.org/tickets to experience the installation. — Artworks © Flora Yukhnovich, courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, and Victoria Miro; photos: Joseph Coscia Jr.

Today, we celebrate Helen Clay Frick, founder of the Frick Art Research Library, #bornonthisday in 1888 📚❤️ After the death of her father, Henry Clay Frick, in 1919, Helen became intimately involved in the development of The Frick Collection as we know it today. She served as the only woman on its founding board of trustees and wrote a meticulous two-volume catalogue of the museum's holdings. As chair of the Frick's acquisitions committee, she assembled one of the nation’s most significant collections of early Italian Renaissance paintings. Helen also established The Frick Art Reference Library (now The Frick Art Research Library) in 1920 as a memorial to her father and as a public resource for those with an interest in art history. She served as Director of the Library from its inception until shortly before her death, in 1984. Learn more about Helen Clay Frick—art historian, philanthropist, collector—in a video narrated by Aimee Ng, John Updike Curator: https://bit.ly/3wGrnoT — Portrait of Helen Clay Frick around the time of her debut, 1908, photo: Walter C. Jarrett; all images from The Frick Collection/Frick Art Research Library Archives Helen Clay Frick with pet dog Brownie, 21 September 1893, photo: B.L.H. Dabbs Portrait of Henry Clay Frick and Helen Clay Frick, 1910, photo: Henry Havelock Pierce Portrait of Helen Clay Frick in her office at the Frick Art Reference Library, 1939, photographer unknown