A Panorama of Pittsburgh
at the Frick through 10/5
Learn about Pittsburgh's past by viewing more than 130 printed views of the city.
Meissonier masterpiece
now on view at the Frick
1806, Jena is on view at the Frick through May 31, 2009.
This Sunday is
RADical Day at the Frick
Visit the Frick on 10/5 for a full day of activities and fun!
Rob Rogers discusses
political cartooning on 10/12
The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
Music for Exhibitions
begins new season 11/18
Join Katherine Soroka and Chatham Baroque for an evening of memorable music.
View photos from the 2008 H. C. Frick Horseless Carriage Tour
Twenty-six teams of drivers made it a day of fun.
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at the Frick through 10/5
Learn about Pittsburgh's past by viewing more than 130 printed views of the city.
Meissonier masterpiece
now on view at the Frick
1806, Jena is on view at the Frick through May 31, 2009.
This Sunday is
RADical Day at the Frick
Visit the Frick on 10/5 for a full day of activities and fun!
Rob Rogers discusses
political cartooning on 10/12
The Post-Gazette's award-winning editorial cartoonist will discuss his experiences covering the 2008 presidential campaign and conventions.
Music for Exhibitions
begins new season 11/18
Join Katherine Soroka and Chatham Baroque for an evening of memorable music.
View photos from the 2008 H. C. Frick Horseless Carriage Tour
Twenty-six teams of drivers made it a day of fun.
Sign up for the
Frick e-newsletter
Each month, receive the latest information about exhibitions; programs for adults, families, children, and teachers; events; specials at The Café and the Museum Shop; and more.
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The purpose of this exhibition will be to exemplify the concept of "one institution with multiple collections" by selecting a diverse array of collections objects and presenting them in The Frick Art Museum. We will draw from the collections of fine and decorative arts, porcelains, cars and carriages, furniture, clothing and ephemera, drawings and prints and sculpture. The buildings themselves will also be treated in the exhibition as collections objects. Through the presentation and investigation of these objects, we hope to lead viewers to a better understanding of the collection in its totality, the contexts and times in which it was formed, and the collectors themselves. The exhibition will be presented in the entire art museum and will comprise all aspects of the building and its collections that are currently on permanent view: the Italian, French and English paintings, the Jacobean period room, and the building itself will be folded into the presentation. These will be augmented by other collections objects, including the recent acquisition of Vik Muniz's series of photographs Clayton Days. The collections will be grouped in several different ways to illuminate themes that cross over strict disciplines and categories, and to re-unite ojbects of similar category or period that have been segregated over the years on the site. For example the Gainsborough portrait currently on view in Clayton may be re-located to the art museum to be shown next to the Reynolds portrait; a carriage or car may be displayed in the art museum to draw attention to innate aesthetic characteristics that may relate to other decorative arts objects that are on view in Clayton. The goal of structuring the exhibition in this manner will be to open new areas of inquiry and appreciation about objects that may not have been satisfactorily served by their presentation to date. The exhibition will have a strong didactic component. Extended object labels and contextual signage will introduce sub-themes, lines of inquiry, and draw connections across the various categories of the collection. For example, a section on the Houdon sculptures in the collection will discuss Helen Clay Frick's scholarship in this area and her interest in 18th-century French art. Books on view in Clayton, collected by Mr. Frick might be placed in relationship to paintings and drawings that have a direct relationship to their subjects. In all aspects of the exhibition, we will take the opportunities to show the "cross pollination" of ideas and objects, and in so doing, work to break down the rigid categorization of object, discipline and the usual place on the site where this object has been presented. |
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