Henry Clay News

On December 13, visitors to The Frick Collection will be able to enjoy a new gallery-the first major addition to the museum's display spaces in nearly thirty-five years.

When you live in a city ringed by suburbs like Old Hickory and Hermitage, when one of the most popular tourist attractions is The Hermitage and we all think of Andy Jackson as someone we know (his visage is found on countless public buildings throughout the city), it just makes sense that Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson would be of interest - not just to me, but to my readers in general and theater lovers in particular. Nashville, you see, is inextricably linked to any version of the Andrew Jackson story you may happen upon, whether it's a Broadway musical (which probably was best-suited to an off-Broadway climate than it was on the main stem) or any of the best sellers that have stocked bookstore shelves in the past decade.

Now in its 16 year, New England's critically-acclaimed presenter of American Music, American Classics (www.amclass.org), announces its 2011 - 2012 Season which will musically pay tribute to the 150 anniversary of the Civil War, baseball and the 100 birthday of Boston's beloved Fenway Park, and the glory days of America's Girl Groups.

The Frick Collection presents a new season of classical music concerts in the elegant setting of the Music Room.

The Frick presents Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition from October 4, 2011, through January 8, 2012

Actor's Choice, in conjunction with Bunbury Theatre, presents Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play EQUUS for the final performance on August 7 at 2:00 p.m.

Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Progress of Love is one of the great painted ensembles of French eighteenth-century art and is considered to be the artist's masterpiece.

The Frick Collection's mission is to preserve and display for the public the Collection, and to augment its holdings in fields established by Henry Clay Frick, reflecting the uncompromising levels of quality that he embraced, and maintaining the historic tranquility of Mr. Frick's house.

Actor's Choice, in conjunction with Bunbury Theatre, presents Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play EQUUS, July 28-30 and August 3-7 at 7:30 p.m.; July 31 and August 7 at 2:00 p.m.

Actor's Choice, in conjunction with Bunbury Theatre, presents Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play EQUUS, July 28-30 and August 3-7 at 7:30 p.m.; July 31 and August 7 at 2:00 p.m.

For the first time in more than ten years, The Frick Collection has published a combined general guide to its collections, history, and building, a softcover volume that features the most recent scholarship and new photography.

This winter, Rembrandt's legacy is the subject of The Frick Collection's special exhibition Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections, which will present a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings by the master and the diverse group of Dutch artists who constitute his school, among them Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Nicolaes Maes, Philips Koninck, and Lambert Doomer.

When Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: 'Rembrandt's.' And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that 'railways are the Rembrandts of investment.' Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt (1884-1970) was a great admirer and collector of works by the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669); as a teenager he wrote a biography of the artist, illustrated with his own copies after Rembrandt's most famous works.

Since its acquisition by Henry Clay Frick in February 1911, Velázquez's portrait ofPhilip IV of Spain has been a centerpiece of the collection and the standard by which other portraits by this artist are measured.The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV closes January 23, 2011.

This winter, Rembrandt's legacy is the subject of The Frick Collection's special exhibition Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections, which will present a selection of paintings, prints, and drawings by the master and the diverse group of Dutch artists who constitute his school, among them Govert Flinck, Ferdinand Bol, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Carel Fabritius, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Nicolaes Maes, Philips Koninck, and Lambert Doomer.

Seventy-five years ago, the intention of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) to present to New York City his extraordinary art collection and magnificent mansion at 1 East 70th Street was realized with the opening of The Frick Collection.