Cocktails with a Curator: Reynolds's "Selina, Lady Skipwith"
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- Опубликовано: 27 ноя 2024
- In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” Curator Aimee Ng bids farewell to the series with a discussion of Joshua Reynolds’s “Selina, Lady Skipwith,” currently on view on the fourth floor of Frick Madison. Seen here with a nosegay tucked into her neck kerchief and a pallid countenance (made more so by the application of poisonous lead makeup), Selina was thirty-five years old when she sat for this portrait and had recently married the politician and baronet Thomas Skipwith despite misgivings about the union. Her husband died a short time later, but Selina lived to be eighty, chronicling her later years in journals. This week’s complementary (and admittedly over-the-top) cocktail, the Asparagus Fizz, was inspired by an 1828 entry in Selina’s journals in which she notes that she has tasted asparagus for the first time.
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Thank you, Aimee, for your dedication and for all of the knowledge you've shared with us over the past many months. We'll miss these weekly sessions so very much and hope Cocktails may return at some point in the future, even if not on such a regular basis. We'll miss you!
sad to see it end hoping it would go on forever.
Thank you, Xavier, Aimee and Giulio. I am so grateful for this series, we'll miss You all very much. Every week I look forward to this 'cocktail' from Italy.
Thank you Amy and the program Cocktails with a Curator, thru which I have learned so much as well as helping us survive in this difficult time. Art Heals!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Please keep this series going even once a month!🤗
Great success this series. Thanks to all the curators.
Our grateful thanks to all involved in giving us this jewel of a programme each week. It was a lift to our spirits on a Friday evening through the worst of the pandemic.
I, too, had hoped this series could go on forever if for no other reason than the delightful insights we get from the three presenters. She read the diaries, collated the two portraits, and gave us the reserved happy ending of a woman frustrated in love but able to make a life despite that fact. Lovely!
The Frick has always been my favorite NYC museum. Friday Cocktails with a Curator has been my go to and highlight of the week. It definitely got me through the pandemic. Cheers to a well done show!
I heartily agree. The Frick, which I discovered many decades ago in my youth, was always a "must visit" when in New York. No longer able to travel, and especially during covid isolation, Cocktails with a Curator has been a great source of pleasure and enlightenment, for which I am most grateful!!
Hearty thanks to dear Aimee and the rest of the wonderful old Frick's team, which kept us busy by sharing with us the beauty and knowledge behind unique art collection (not to mention amazing and never heard before cocktails)! It kept us alert and want to continue to live even at that, 'the most interesting time', as Chinese saying usually as a curse. After visiting Frick for decades (especially at good-old Sunday mornings!), I was absolutely surprise how little I knew about the pieces which I almost considered as my own household items. I never had that feelings visited near by great museums on the 'Arts' miles' or others around the world. Lets wait when this pandemic finally going away, and the many billions of $$, dedicated to repair infrastructure of our roads, tunnels and subways start work, and with the piece in the world (not divided on the categories and color) we will have opportunity again to enjoy arts from all over the world, (including those marvels which are already here!).
Thank you to all at the Frick for this wonderful, remarkable series. Art, history and querky cocktails to boot, oh what a bountiful weekly joy.
Thank you so much for these presentations. They made life brighter during these grim times. You have no idea..
Thanks Ms Ng for all of your insights. Hope people show some of these talks to children. No one is too young. I was given a lecture about an 18th cent portrait in kindergarten and I still remember it. It was at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
We look forward to this every week, so sad to see it end. Thank you very much.
I am so sorry that these videos are ending, especially as I am a non-American who will never be able to actually visit the Frith. Selina, Lady Skipwith, sounds like a very interesting woman and I'm glad that she seemed happier and healthier towards the end of her life than she appeared to be in the earlier portrait. Thanks so much to all of you for sharing this series with us throughout the worst of the pandemic. I learned a lot and very much enjoyed each episode. With very best wishes from the UK.
A year later and I am still watching and enjoying these episodes. When I went to visit Frick Madison last August I told the people at the desk just how much I loved this series.
The series of Cocktails with a Curator was a revelation to me. I am happy I can still watch other episodes on RUclips, because I did'nt watch them live. They were a great support during the several lockdowns we experienced. signed: Filip from Belgium.
Beautiful job of bringing the Thomas Lawrence portrait in as a counterpoint to the earlier Reynolds portrait. It evokes a wonderful arc of an individual woman's life during the era of Jane Austin. One can almost fit in the details of hope, disappointment, and eventual fulfillment.
Oh,, Aimee, I will miss your Friday sojourns through art art the Frick, and all the side stories that go with it. Thank you! I've made my initial visit to Frick Madison, and look forward to many more, with your stories to add to the pleasure of viewing the magnificent art.
A great story, thanks! I'm so glad for Lady Skipwith's rebirth.
This series has been so enjoyable. I drank a simple bourbon and branch almost every Friday along with you. Will miss you all. Thanks!
Same with me, except my drink was usually amantilado sherry😉
I came across this series a couple of weeks ago and have been binge watching Ms. Ng's presentations. I'm sad they came to an end. Next time I'm in New York, the Frick will be at the head of my list of places to visit.
Thank you, Xavier and Aimee. I am so grateful for this series, but terribly saddened to see it end. Is there no way it can return once a month?
Aimee, the pleasure has all been ours. Thank you so much for your talks over the last year, I wish they could go on, but all good things must come to an end, or so we are told.
Really loved these programs. Thank you to all of you for creating them. They were a bright spot during these difficult times.
Thank you Amiee for these wonderful insights into the women who sat for these beautiful portraits. We forget sometimes that they were living breathing people in and of themselves. The painter was there to show us the person (and yes, his skill). What a joy this has been.
Sadly I have just come across this wonderful series of videos by Aimee Ng. I hope she could see my comment and receive my heartfelt thanks for the excellent documentaries she made. Nicely presented, with a very interesting historical background about the sitters and their times.
One important detail I would like to mention is that the paleness of the complexion was a symbol of gentility, which means high social standing. Why? Well, ladies and gentlemen did not work, and in those days work was mostly done outdoors by the farmers who were fairly tanned by the sun; and this did not start in the 18th century but in the 16th.
Another thing I would like to point out is the wonderful portrait of Mr Skipwith by Gilbert Stuart, a magnificent portrait painter who has been somewhat forgotten and not appreciated as he deserves.
I'm going to miss these episodes and I wish you could continue them! Aimee, you were my favorite. Thanks for all the enjoyment you brought us!
Thanks for everything, Aimee.
Thank you all for these wonderful Friday gifts! These Frick art and cocktails get togethers helped my mental health enormously over this last year. Thanks again!
Cheers! Great job! Just lovely. I really wish this series would continue. The deep dives into the art is so very interesting and the scholarship is so well done. It will surely be missed. - Novosel
I loved this series and am sorry to see it end. In today's episode, I found fhe Lawrence portrait much more impressive than the Reynolds. What a fabulous presentation of an older woman!
Agree! It isn't the bravura demonstration of color and texture, but it's a real representation of character.
I'm a huge fan of Sir Joshua's, but I agree: the portrait by Lawrence is perfect!!! Mind you, I'm a huge fan of Sir Thomas Lawrence's too! I always enjoy how close-ups (particularly of the clothing and the hands) from either of these artists could almost be close-ups from a Sargent.
Please continue this mini series, Aimee! It truly is a gem.
From rural NSW, Australia, I am so sad to see 'Cocktails with a Curator' wind up and especially will miss the dedicated research and passionate charm of Aimee Ng. I really want to thank all of the curators at the Frick Museum that made this series possible and helped enlighten us during trying times. It was bloody brilliant!
I do agree with you 100% mate. I lived in your beautiful country between 1994 and 2005 and I loved it every day. I wish I could go back, but unfortunately, I don't have the resources to live there without working and I am too old now to get a job. Advance Australia Fair!
Thank you Aimee for such a pleasurable lecture. I have spent so many delightful hours watching this heart warming series. I hope you will film other programs as good as this one.
Thank you from Sydney, Australia, Aimee. What a wonderful lecture on the personal history of Lady Skipworth and the history of women in a very advantaged sphere of British society. And to think the British colonised Australia at almost the same time (1788). Such an anomaly with the devastating consequences for our Indigenous women and people. Will miss the weekly 'Cocktails' very much.
Very deep and serious comment, which could be expanded on the rest of the the British empire, at that and even other times, (where sun never set!), including North America. I actually never like the first presented portrait, which, for some reason, maybe not fully justifiable, as Aimee kindly explain to us, remind me the hiding image of the role of the entire British empire in the world affair (particularly in Russia!) , which was created by great A.P. Chekhov.(It is so good, that it is very difficult to translate in English!).
Forever grateful Dr. Ng.
In the first portrait, she has the look of someone who needs to get back to the office but is stuck on a checkout line behind a person fishing through a gigantic bag to find a checkbook.
In the Lawrence portrait, which is AMAZING to see, she exhibits a barely repressed mirth and what I can only think to describe as an amiable hateur.
Looking back at the first portrait in light of the second, one sees a person frustrated and limited by social conventions, not merely sad or bored but repressed. But luckily now we know that in the end she was triumphant. What a magnificent transformation and life.
Thank you and all the curators for this incredible series, which I am sorry to see come to a close.
Aimee, I am going to miss you. These episodes have been my friends for the past year. I've watched and liked every one and I subscribed after watching the first episode. I also went to the Madison site on a timed entrance and spent hours there looking at the items I've seen and not seen on your channel. Thank all of you so much and I am looking so forward to returning to the 5th Avenue site when it reopens.
I'm just a little bit sad that this is the last cocktails with the curator. This has been an outstanding idea! You should continue it!
The Reynolds portrait is sublime just for that ribbon on the dress alone.
Dear Aime Ng: Fascinating final discussion, thank you. 🇨🇦
Thank you Dr. Ng and your colleagues for making the last strange 14 months more interesting.
Thank you for another in-depth and scholarly exposition of what is a beautiful portrait. So glad you receognize the different standards enjoyed by people these days as opposed to the late 18th century, thank you. Look forward to what comes from the Frick in the future.
I enjoyed that very much. Thank you Dr Aimee. I don't enjoy many art historians' lectures-they don't know how to paint and yet are silly enough to "explain" to the public what was in the painters' minds (I'm a Realist painter).
I always enjoy how close-ups (particularly of the clothing and the hands) from either Reynolds or Lawrence (and, to a lesser degree,Thomas Phillips, Henry Raeburn, Gilbert Stuart …) could almost be close-ups from a Sargent.
I'm sorry this series is coming to an end. Thanks again to you and to Xavier.
Dear Michael: I could not agree with you more. Although I am not an artist I was a fairly good draughtsman with a great love for real art (I mean figurative or realistic). Not only most of these "experts" are fairly ignorant about the painting techniques of the past, but they are unbearably patronizing and, as you pointed out, they have the idiotic habit of telling us what the artist, thought and wanted to achieve or express.
Painting is about sensibility. Real art does not be explained. That applies to the awful trash produced by the swindlers that describe themselves as artists since the early XXth century when that crap known as "Modern Art" began.
I’m so very sad to see the series end. It has been a unique opportunity to gain a personal and in-depth understanding of the Frick Collection. It was as if each of the curators joined me in my home to chat about their favorite art objects. Thank you all so much.
Great job, as usual. I'll miss these talks too and they help give me the sense I am part of the place. No other museum can match them for quality. But I can't see this going on forever when the curators have all their regular research + you won't have to dream up these cocktail accompaniments anymore!
Quarterly sessions? These were such a treat even without the cocktails!
Great post! really interesting background knowledge, so good to take another look, thank you so much.
Glad to have found this series along with yourself and your colleagues during the past year to learn more insights than most gallery and museum visits offer in person. A chipper Canadian.
bravo, one of the most interesting tellings of a painting and so happy that indeed the lady had a happy ending. thank you.
Loved this episode! I would love to know more about Lady Skipwith. Can you recommend a reading list? And thank you to all the Frick‘s curators & staff for all of the Cocktails With a Curator episodes this past year +. I soaked them all up & will miss sharing a Friday evening cocktail with such good company. Sincere thanks & best wishes to each of you!
Thank you for this interesting episode and this wonderful series.
Oh nooo, I love these!! But happy to visit again too! THANK YOU!
Thank you very much for this series I loved it! I only hope you'll go on sharing online whatever cames next at the Fritz. A big goodbye and see you soon from Italy!
Watched all these from the UK.. absolutely fantastic, what a brilliant idea thank you so very much!!
Thank u so much for this program I learned a lot and it really help me gain new influences and ideas, the curators are fabulous.
I was right there back in the eighteenth century with you. Interesting life story.
I am going to miss you all , it has become so much part of my life and I have learned so much . Grateful thanks from South Africa
Thank you so much for this lady Diana skipwith is my 10th great-grandmother she is descendants of Kings and also Constantine
Fare well Aimee Ng and thank you for sharing your scholarship and insight. My Saturday mornings here in Britain will seem emptier even with an Asparagus Martini for breakfast.
Thank you, always interesting and educational.
thank you so much Aimee!
Thank You Aimee!!!
Thank you Aimée!
Grazie di tutto Aimee. See you one day at the Frick. Greetings from Italy.
Friday evenings will be so much less now … thank you so much! See you at the Frick one day soon 🙏🏻
I substituted a Sgroppino. No thanks with the asparagus. :) Another awesome presentation.
Many thanks to Xavier, Aimee and Julio
thanks Aimee. you're the best. Bottoms up! Cheers!
Thank you!
You will be missed !!!!
Found the Virginia "Skipwith" connection 📚📖🎨
Would be a bizarre ending to a beloved web series that had to end because the curator poked her eye out with a piece of asparagus as part of a cocktail. Shirley they're not serious about this series ending? These were perfect info-packed 25 minute morsels presented in a "human", non-pompous way. I'll miss you all.
Another interesting look at a portrait of an elite woman and the perennial examination at the differences in notions of beauty, how they are read and they change through time. It seems to me that often the level of artifice employed to achieve a particular cultural ideal seem to have more to do with wealth than beauty. The elaborate hair, ceruse white and bright rouge seem to speak more to the lifestyle suggested by their employment along with the cost of the daily reapplication than youth or beauty. To me there is a cultural parallel today with the particular 'look' of the 'trophy wife' aesthetic with a thin build, blond hair, makeup, false eyelashes, botox/cosmetic surgery; it seems to signify wealth more than either youth or beauty since it is very obvious that the appearance is completely artificial and in some cases unnatural, however, it does indicate that a lot of money has been spent to achieve the 'look'.
Great!
I will really miss the sensitivity you bring to each painting, Aimee.
What's the curator name ?
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THIS IS GREAT - WISH I COULD VISIT YOU IN NEW YORK! FROM BRITAIN! @devereuxmatthew
Even though you are leaving us all around the world 🌍 we will be sad. Maybe they will come up with a different series of programs. I now need a different Friday night ritual.
Imagine a fine lady of the Qing dynasty being described as essentially unhygenic and having her skin tone due to toxic substances. This curator needs a course in cultural sensitivity.