The exhibition runs until 2 June, when it moves to Atlanta's High Museum of Art and then in October to the Frick Collection in New York City before returning home to Holland.
No fan of wandering through trendy neighborhoods or doing mindless shopping, I hit on the idea of visiting a bunch of the smaller museums, set in once private homes like the Frick Museum in New York.
Made around the time Rembrandt turned sixty, in 1666, the view of the painter at work complements the great 1658 self-portrait at the Frick, in which he seems a grand but old and discouraged lion.
But the win was sealed 10 minutes from time when the visitors' Mario Frick deflected in Ched Evans' header.
Finally, 15 of them will visit the Frick Collection in New York.
Nine full-length paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir hang together for the first time at an exhibit opening Tuesday at the Frick Collection in New York.
Housed in the exquisite Bryce-Frick mansion (built in 1900 by General Lloyd Bryce and purchased by Childs Frick, son of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, 19 years later), the charming museum hosts a variety of changing exhibitions featuring the likes of Catalan painter and sculptor Joan Miro and African-American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Actually, it's part of the Frick: Started in 2007, it's called the Center for the History of Collecting.
One chapter that begins with a description of Duveen's relationship with Henry Clay Frick, who in his old age became one of Duveen's most important clients, directly follows another that ends with an account of the sinking of the Lusitania in the spring of 1915.
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Generously installed in the Frick's oval room, the paintings are placed so we can study them closely.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
As Barry Larkin and the family of Ron Santo enjoy their Cooperstown induction ceremonies, McCarver picks up the Ford Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
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In 1950, the Frick acquired two small, gold-ground, half-length figures, a monk and nun in the sober habits of the Augustinian order probably St.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
She pointed to Henry Frick, who made his fortune in steel, as an excellent example.
In these works you can take the measure of the man and the tastes of his age, shared by Huntington and Frick, whose own museums opened in 1927 and 1931.
But, so far as anyone knew, the two men had not exchanged a word in nearly twenty years not since Carnegie drove Frick out of the business and Frick successfully pressed a monumental lawsuit against his former partner, the first in a long string of vengeful acts.
She is from Manhattan and works in the education department at the Frick Collection.
Today, only eight survive: the Frick's four, three more standing male saints in European museums, and a half-length gold ground St.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
At the Frick, thanks mainly to Sterling Clark's perspicacity in buying in some depth from the auctions of Degas's work held soon after his death Clark apparently wished he'd bought more we can follow this enigmatic artist's evolution.
WSJ: Fine Lines | Frick Collection | Brooklyn Museum | by Karen Wilkin
The words might have touched a chord in almost any other man, but Henry Clay Frick, still the ranking board member of U.S. Steel, showed no sign of gratitude or relief.
Moguls have been funding museums for years but usually posthumously--Hearst Castle, the Frick Collection, the quirky Barnes Foundation near Philadelphia, the institution in Los Angeles housing J.
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The Frick's own little Crucifixion gives us Piero's strengths in miniature, with harmoniously posed soldiers casting lots at the foot of the cross, a swooning Virgin, and superbly modeled horses of the mounted soldiers on either side of the panel.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
Ms. Frick was not content simply with seeing Piero's most important paintings in situ.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
Photographs of the era reveal his features as handsome, but Frick's countenance was intimidating, and that had been no hindrance in his dealings with business rivals and union organizers.
"Piero della Francesca in America, " the splendid small exhibition organized for the Frick by the guest curator and former Andrew W. Mellon Fellow Nathaniel Silver, bears witness to the effects of that trip.
WSJ: Separated at the Altar | Piero della Francesca in America | Frick Collection | By Karen Wilkin
Unlike at the Metropolitan Museum or MoMA, where on an average busy day it becomes easy to hate the rest of the human race as you jockey with fellow art lovers for post position in front of a popular Vermeer or Picasso, at the Frick or Morgan you can often have a world-class El Greco or Ingres all to yourself.
Together, the two combine to provide an engaging, slightly erratic crash course in just about everything from academic, traditional life drawing to modernist innovations, on paper, in the U.S. and Europe, from the 18th to the 20th centuries with, at the Frick, special emphasis on the shift from naturalism to formal invention that began in France about 1850.
WSJ: Fine Lines | Frick Collection | Brooklyn Museum | by Karen Wilkin
Frick winner Dave Van Horne and Spink Award winner Bill Conlin for Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown beginning on July 22nd.
He drew heavily from railroad and insurance interests, and in the last days before the election he reportedly made a personal appeal for funds to Henry Clay Frick, the steel baron, and other industrialists.
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