Introduction to The Frick Collection
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- To celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2010, The Frick Collection launched a new orientation film. Narrated by members of the Frick's senior staff, this eleven-minute presentation was produced and directed by the award-winning filmmaker Christopher Noey. A DVD available from the Museum Shop (www.frick.org/shop).
I can honestly say that the Frick Collection was the highlight of my trip to New York. Of course, don't miss the Met but the Frick is so peaceful and full of priceless treasures like the Vermeers.
Wow, just wow. i wonder how many people in NY don't even know of it? What a treasure.
I wish I'd known when my wife and I visited that great city 'what a joy ..
It's very well known all around the State. He also has a great Car and Carriage collection in Pittsburgh.
I visited the Frick once in 1986. It was wonderful. I saw so many paintings where I said to myself “so THIS is where that painting is”! So many famous paintings are in the collection. Holbein’s work of Sir Thomas More was breathtaking to see in the original. Like looking at Monet’s Haystacks at the Musee’ d’Orsay. The amazing thing was to see such a great number of famous works in a private collection. I can’t imagine anyone enjoying living in such a mausoleum of a house though. It was built as a gallery despite the fact that it was a house.
I was in college when I saw the Dutch paintings at the Frick. That first exposure to delicate glazes, applied with the tiniest brushes, was an absolute revelation about technical mastery.
Collecting art is an ADDICTION! 🥰❤️
mr frick had the eye of an artist.
What an absolute treasure of a place and a visionary of a person he was to give us that!
frick's Homestead strike was also known as. the Homestead Massacre. Workers and the pinkerton guards Frick hired were killed in the battle frick created when he fired all his workers. Henry Frick, was furious workers had a voice with a union. Frick demanded wage cuts for 325 employees, even though the workers had already taken large pay cuts three years before. The steel company was making massive profits-a record $4.5 million just before the 1892 massacre.Seven workers and three Pinkerton guards were killed. Afterwards the daily wages of the highly skilled workers at Homestead shrunk by one-fifth between 1892 and 1907, while their work shifts increased from eight hours to 12 hours.
Just enjoyed this beautiful presentation, art is soothing and this collection is quite so.
It's a lovely collection.
That was Frickin awesome!
...what the Frick (lol) !
Indeed.
For Frick sake.
"The name of this institution, the FRICK COLLECTION, says everything about it..." it's a collection of frickin fricks?
A gem of a collection of European beauty in New York! How wonderful.
The art is beautiful. The person who collected it was not. He was a greedy collector of wealth and prepared to do anything for it, even shooting his own factory workers in a strike.
poor people are boring
An awesome collection in a beautiful museum.
Beautiful presentation of classic and refined art. thank you.
Wonderful !
Furniture there is the highlight in my view. Barnes has the best Artwork in the Americas by far
I was in december 2019 in your museum in New York. It was beautifull. I am from Holland so I cannot come often to NY
Words don’t describe the absolute impeccable collection displayed in such a magnificent house. The epitome of good taste.
As a simple tourist I was stunned to “discover” the Frick. It is a magnificent jewel like the Wallace Collection in London.
Wonderful! I think when the quarantine is over, I'll make Frick the first museum I visit.
I visited his home in Pittsburgh. I fell in love with it!
While stationed in Lake Hurst, NJ attending Navy weather school while in the Marines, I visited NYC as often as I could. Frick had the most Rembrandts and other amazing paintings. then I had to go to Guggenheim and the Met..I'm glad I made the effort..worth it!
Very enjoyable presentation. Amazing what some of these immensely wealthy men of the past left for the public’s enjoyment. Reminds me of visiting The Breakers or the Biltmore Estate.
I visited the Frick a few years ago. I was most impressed not by the art but by the magnificent curtains in the various galleries. They were a joy to behold.
This was such a lovely video. Absolutely captures what it's like to visit the museum, and as a PA native, I loved hearing about the history of Frick's rise in the steel mills. Beautifully done. Thank you. :)
I wonder how he made his fortune to become so rich to buy and collect all these precious items where in those days most people hardly could afford a new pair of shoes.
Gorgeous!!!
Clean, decent and upstanding. Rare qualities these days. So refreshing.
I'm not sure one could reasonably describe his business history as decent and upstanding.
If you're talking about Frick himself, I think it's a lot more complicated than that. His museum and his art collection are magnificent, as is his contributing them to the public. His union busting activities in Pittsburgh and other business actions, not to mention his role in helping cause the Johnstown flood, make his legacy a little less "decent and upstanding."
We should never forget that the money for the museum and the art was paid for by the back breaking labor and the blood of the workers at Frick’s steel plants. They certainly did not share in the wealth they created.
Are things so different today?
What a marvellous collection
HCF has a taste quality so few could match, I am so glad it's in NYC, just a boat ride away. I must revisit it soon. It truly is so peaceful to see all that beauty in one place ! Thank You Henry and Family !!
0:34 seconds there's the painting of Thomas Cromwell we are so familiar with. Who knew it was in the Frick? I sure didn't.
I think that the Holbein painting of Thomas Moore (also a famous Tudor image) is mounted on the opposite side of the door frame---I have been to the Frick but about 20 years ago, I would love to go back.
Wonderful treasures. Behind every great fortune is an even greater crime.
A beautiful and extremely wonderful display. I wish you permanent happiness, success and progress in your wonderful work. Health and safety to all of you with the utmost thanks and respect. Greetings.💕💕💕💕💕
Fascination with oligarchs & their possessions is excellent way of looking thru the mirror.
Bear in mind that philanthropy is often built out of abuse. You can draw a line from Henry Clay Frick to the Jonestown flood. Guilt and positive PR are great motivation. That being said it is a wonderful collection. (Carnegie built libraries)
Top...I can honestly say that the Frick Collection was the highlight of my LIFE... Thank YOU ! ..................................
Magnificent!! These giants of industry took but they gave so much back. The Frick Museum is stunning.
Yes especially the 10 men who died in the Homestead strike killed by Pinkerton men that Frick hired.
I agree. These men gave so much to the US.
I went here three years ago and it was so nice. I think of it everyday and can’t wait to go again. I’ve gotta say that it even topped the MET because it was a more personal experience and the whole decor really is art in and of itself. Beautiful collection, me and Mr. Frick had a similar taste in art I think.
Visiting The Frick on two visits to NYC were among the great experiences of my life.
The room wall design and the art just complements each other, it's just, beauty.
I love the Frick, and have visited there on many trips to New York, since about 1962.
For the record, only a tiny cohort in Pittsburgh hated Frick. The nation as a whole admired how he handled the strike.
The Frick Collection is an absolutely unique place in NYC, usually my last stop before heading the airport. Its reference library is also one of the best places to read and I'm again looking forward to coming back to 5th ave & 70th east. Recommended to ALL, interested in true masterpieces of classical European painting from 16th-19th centuries. My only concern is the proposed large adding to the building and I very much hope it will not interupt into Frick's refined taste, gentle spirit and a calm atmosphere.
Frick means money in French.
The Frick phenomenon in American reality means taste ;)
Thank You
My favorite museum ever! Thank you.
It's terrific when great taste and great wealth come together. Alas, I have the former only.
Frick had great ruthlessness also that made it possible for him to amass his wealth on the backs of the workers.
Very educational enjoyed this documentary.
One of my favorite places in NYC. Such a lovely space to spend time with good art.
I could live there and be very much at-home. A house without art, is a house without a soul.
I was there about a decade ago, a truly magnificent house and collection.
What a wonderful thing to do with one,s money!
No - with other peoples money ! Let's get that straight !
It's one's... a contraction of ONE and IS.
3rd-grade grammar... 😎
with modern slave money......
marvelous. i don't ever recall hearing much about the collection, especially in and around the new york area. a treasure, for sure.
I enjoyed my visit
It is beautiful could have bee also pleasent feeling in my younger years to study here and also live there.Thanks
Most lovely documentary , I should love to visit the home /museum hopefully one day .
Mary Canada 🇨🇦
What a great video to stumble upon. Must now visit the museum!
This is one of those hidden gems, Like The Huntington Gardens in San Marino/Pasadena.
.....adding to my bucket list.
A sumptuous superior 🖼 collection 💎
It is a beautiful collection. Quality!
I would have enjoyed hearing why Mr. Frick chose the pieces that he collected.
I'm proud to be working there.
I had a great time too !
What a beautifully sumptuous array of art and furnishings assembled by Henry Clay Frick. He had a wonderful eye for the selections, now timeless in the museum. A question, what precautions are made to help prevent the aging and fading which can come from exposure to light?
Acabo de visitar este canal que me ha parecido una maravilla. Sus vídeos son de gran interés, perfecta factura y calidad técnica y artística por lo que me suscribo. Gracias por compartir tan excelentes trabajos. Un saludo.
José Luis.
Brilliant!
Simply stunning
frickin awesome
He definitely had a vision a great one at that, that's still living on to this day would love to visit
Everything is beautiful because it is rooms people lived in.....
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Me encanta la conferencia de frick
when they described the emotional connection frick had with the collection i teared up :((((
I haven't been to the Frick in many years, but I remember the Rembrandt 'Polish Rider' as being in one of the living rooms: perhaps the drawing room or the library? Anyway, it's clearly now in the large gallery, with many other great paintings, but it loses a lot of its impact in such a large space. I wonder what was the reason for this change. Wonderful documentary film, by the way.
It reminds me of the Wallace Collection in London. Not a single item that isn't covetable.
Upsetting to think that rich people don’t leave a great work like that to society anymore.
Very interesting. 👍
this is the home of a psychopath no sense of moral rights gimi, gimi, gimi wake up people
That was Fricking good! 😅
Some people go to IKEA, Mr Frick went to museums...yeah, right... "Honey, we should call the Louvre, and ask if they could possibly sell us that lady with the mysterious smile" said Mr Frick over breakfast, while buttering his toast.
I remember that my Grand Mother had told me. This picture frame had been given to her by her Grandfather; which had been given to him by Henry Clay Frick. That is just the way it is, for some of us !
Ewwww lol
Money and manners are not always synonymous.
Would loved to have lived in that Era........
Well it would be okay if you were wealthy. I would have to do more to help people.
I just looked up “frick”
A beautiful collection and a very watchable video....except...why why why do we have to have music playing ...totally distracting from what is being spoken and diverting from looking at the wonderful exhibits. What madness inflicts video makers especially on you tube to accompany every video with noisy music. STOP IT !!!!!!!
In this day and time with the publicity he received in the newspapers of his purchases i am surprised his home was not looted!!
Why are there 652 different speakers in this video?? It s confusing.
What your seeing is a very rich man that could afford the very best. So of course its going to be beautiful.
Waxing lyrically about the excessive wealth of this man and his dilettante lifestyle ... wafting in his later years from purchasjng priceless works of art to exquisite objets d'art, decorative porcelain, furniture and antiques ... a self-indulgent rich mans hobby ...
Sure the public benefitted ... eventually ... but there is something slightly obscene in that amount of wealth ... so vast ... and the reverence underscoring the narration as she attempts to almost verge on justifying the scale and immense expense of his collecting
They are closed on Sundays.
Il y a tant de tableaux au musée Frick que j'aimerais avoir dans mon salon. On peut toujours rêver....
Are there any classic paint-by-numbers there? I do love a good paint-by-numbers.
Of course there is. They are in the gift shop.😃
Wonderful documentary, great narration, lovely collection and fabulous house, the background "music" intrusive and totally unnecessary. Why are so many of these historic documentaries spoiled by background noise.
Frick, "To my greater glory, go I."
Love it! Shared ;->
Um, now about that Homestead Massacre you skated over so blithely . . . .
Hmm,.... I'm sure you have access to any number of history books in which you can "boneup" on that Homestead event,.... why mention that in this forum??
This is the first I have heard of this! Thanks for the video. If I ev er travel to New York, I want to see this place! What is the entry fee?
What is the estimated worth of the collection?
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im partial to objet d'equestrio myself ... the minotaur at 8:59 caught my eye most
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