Full Description
The Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts at the renowned Frick Collection might be thought to be all but inextricable from the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion in which they reside. For a couple of years, however, while the Frick is undergoing renovation, highlights from the collection have been relocated to a radically different, unlikely home: Marcel Breuer's Brutalist building five blocks away, which the architect designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The result is a stunning reconstruction and re-presentation of a beloved collection, with the museum's treasures comfortably and elegantly adapting to their temporary modernist abode. This handsome volume documents this altogether singular moment in the Frick's history with stunning photographs by Joseph Coscia Jr. and a reflective foreword by Roxane Gay.
Contents
Foreword by Roxane Gay; Preface by Ian Wardropper, director of The Frick Collection; The Frick Collection: A Translation by Xavier F. Salomon; Second-Floor Galleries: Northern Europe, Painting and Sculpture; Third-Floor Galleries: Italy and Spain, Painting and Sculpture; Indian Carpets, Porcelain, Bronzes, Enamels, and Clocks; Fourth-Floor Galleries: France and Britain, Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts; Captions
