Frick Collection Ceramic Museum

The residence is one of new york city s few remaining gilded age mansions.

Frick collection ceramic museum.

Finding success in the steel and coal industries frick invested a significant amount of his fortune in his art collection eventually amassing one of the most magnificent and well known collections of masterpieces by artists such as. The frick collection is an art museum located in the henry clay frick house on the upper east side in manhattan new york city at 1 east 70th street located at the northeast corner with fifth avenue it houses the collection of industrialist henry clay frick 1849 1919. The frick collection is an art museum consisting of more than 1 500 works of art from the ninth to the nineteenth century displayed in the intimate surroundings of the former home of pittsburgh industrialist henry clay frick. Site specific works made of porcelain steel gold marble and glass are displayed in the museum s main galleries alongside works from the permanent collection.

The frick art museum opened in 1970 to house helen clay frick s personal collection of fine and decorative arts with outstanding examples of early renaissance sienese painting and 18th century french painting furniture and decorative arts. Facebook twitter youtube pinterest go to our instagram google art project. The french ceramics include remarkable examples of vincennes and sèvres porcelains of the eighteenth century as well as a rare sixteenth century ewer of. The frick collection is situated in the former new york mansion and home of industrialist henry clay frick one of america s most renowned art collectors.

Acclaimed author and ceramist edmund de waal discusses the inspiration and technical process leading up to his exhibition of sculptures installed throughout the frick collection. The chinese ceramics in the frick collection date from the ming and qing dynasties and embrace a range of types including blue and white famille verte famille noire and famille rose.