The Frick Collection

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Frick for the first of our Louis Vuitton First Fridays! 🎨✨

It was a fabulous night of live music, drinks, gallery talks, and wandering the collection. Plus, we were thrilled to host live figure drawing with renowned drag artists Gloria Swansong and Emi Grate!

Tickets for the July 3 installment go on sale on Monday, June 22. Free timed tickets are encouraged, though walk-up visitors are welcome. We are deeply grateful to Louis Vuitton for sponsoring Louis Vuitton First Fridays from June 2026 through May 2027.
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Photos by Cris Sunwoo

Over the weekend, the Frick welcomed a new family of ducklings to our 70th Street Garden! 🐣🦆

The eleven ducklings and their mom were spotted paddling around the reflecting pool. Our engineering team even built a custom ramp so the ducklings could climb back to dry land. The whole family made it safely to Central Park’s Model Boat Pond just across the street. Take good care!

We’re thrilled to see the return of this beloved tradition. Before our renovation, a pair of mallards used to relocate temporarily from their home in Central Park to the 70th Street Garden to nest and raise their young every spring. Learn more about our gardens at frick.org/gardens 🌿

Welcome home, New York Knicks! LGK 🏀💙

Cheering on our hometown team this week from Fifth Avenue. Swipe to enjoy some blue and orange .

Curious to explore more? Discover our collection of over a million photographic reproductions of artworks at digitalcollections.frick.org.
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Joseph DeCamp (1858–1923), The Blue Mandarin Coat (The Blue Kimono), 1922, oil on canvas, High Museum of Art; all works are reproductions

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Gladioli, ca. 1884, oil on canvas, private collection

Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), The Schoolboy (The Postman’s Son – Gamin au Képi), 1888, oil on canvas, Museu de Arte de São Paulo

Heinrich Pommerencke (1821–1873), Awaiting the Suitor, 1852, private collection

Did you know that our major renovation project allowed us to nearly double the amount of works we have on view? 🖼️🏺

Explore a new thematic collection at frick.org/art dedicated to the hidden treasures and recent acquisitions newly on view since our reopening last year.

With restored first-floor galleries and the debut of ten rooms and five passages on the newly opened second floor, we expanded our capacity to display works from the permanent collection—both recent additions and objects rarely exhibited during the museum’s ninety-year history.

Swipe to view highlights and explore the full list: https://bit.ly/43BQx8x
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Giovanni Battista Moroni (ca. 1520/4–1579/80), Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1575, oil on canvas, gift of the Assadour O. Tavitian Trust, 2022; all works from The Frick Collection, New York

James Cox (ca. 1723–1800), Musical Automaton Rhinoceros Clock, ca. 1765–72, case: gilt bronze, silver enamel, and paste jewels, pedestal: white marble and agate, gift of Alexis Gregory, 2021

Attributed to Jacques de Lajoue (1686/1687–1761), Decorative Panel: Girl with a Spear, ca. 1730–40, oil on canvas

Susanne de Court (act. ca. 1600), French, Limoges, Oval Medallion, Apollo and the Muses, ca. 1600, Limoges, enamel on copper, parcel-gilt, gift of Alexis Gregory, 2021

Jean-Marc Nattier (1685–1766), Elizabeth, Countess of Warwick, 1754, oil on canvas

Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory (act. ca. 1740–1756), model by Jean-Claude Duplessis (ca. 1695–1774), painted by Antoine Caton (1726–1800), Vase Duplessis à Enfants (one of a pair), 1753–54, soft-paste porcelain, with later addition of gilt-bronze mount

Happy opening day to our friends at The Public Theater! Tonight is the world premiere of "Girl, Interrupted," whose title was inspired by Vermeer’s “Girl Interrupted at Her Music,” here at the Frick 🎭✨

The new play by Martyna Majok, with original music by Aimee Mann, is based on Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir of the same name. Kaysen writes about encountering Vermeer’s painting at the Frick while on a day pass from a psychiatric hospital. She recognized something of herself in its central figure: a young woman paused, unsettled, caught between two states. That fleeting interruption became a lasting metaphor for those suspended months of her life in the hospital.

Find Vermeer's "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" on view in the South Hall during your next visit to the Frick!
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Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675), Girl Interrupted at Her Music, ca. 1658–59, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection, New York

Early summer morning, brought to you by Turner 🖼️☀️

The artist painted this scene on the Thames in 1826 as a commission for William Moffatt, whose estate, just west of London, he shows bathed in a luminous shade of yellow—a signature of his evolving style in the 1820s.

Though Turner called this an "Early Summer Morning," the day is already buzzing with activity, from loaded boats on the river to figures tending the garden (one holding a large scythe). Two fashionably dressed men at the center of the composition have less to do: They lean against the parapet enjoying the view.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851), Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning, 1826, oil on canvas, The Frick Collection, New York