Frick Collection

{{For|a more detailed history of the house|Henry Clay Frick House#History}}

Henry Clay Frick was a coke and steel magnate.{{Cite news |date=December 3, 1919 |title=Henry C. Frick Dies; Leaves Art to City; Pioneer in Steel and Coke Industry Stricken Suddenly By Heart Attack |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/12/03/archives/henry-c-frick-dies-leaves-art-to-city-pioneer-in-steel-and-coke.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/1919/12/03/archives/henry-c-frick-dies-leaves-art-to-city-pioneer-in-steel-and-coke.html |url-status=live}}{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=10}} As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in Broadford, Pennsylvania.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|pages=10–11}} Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's In the Louvre, in 1880,{{cite news |last=Chapin |first=Louis |date=July 29, 1971 |title=Museum Treasure Hunt: the Frick Collection |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=6 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|511241270}}}} after moving to Pittsburgh. He did not begin buying paintings in large numbers until the mid-1890s,{{cite web |last=Dobrzynski |first=Judith H. |date=October 19, 1998 |title=Mourning Became Frick as an Art Collector |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/arts/mourning-became-frick-as-an-art-collector.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212909/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/arts/mourning-became-frick-as-an-art-collector.html |url-status=live}}{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=13}} and he began devoting significant amounts of time to his collection.{{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Frick Collection Belongs to Public |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=6 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513076875}}}} This made Frick one of several prominent American businessmen who also collected art, along with figures such as Henry Havemeyer and J. P. Morgan.{{Cite news |last=Raynor |first=Vivien |date=December 13, 1987 |title=Art; Jersey City: Early Collector's Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/nyregion/art-jersey-city-early-collector-s-collection.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231321/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/nyregion/art-jersey-city-early-collector-s-collection.html |url-status=live}} In explaining why he collected art, Frick said, "I can make money... I cannot make pictures." He curated his collection with the help of Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen.{{Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Richard |date=January 9, 1999 |title=The robber baron's gift: Why did coke king Henry Frick leave his art collection to the US nation? asks Richard Lambert |work=Financial Times |page=5 |id={{ProQuest|248753901}}}}{{cite web |last=Fabrikant |first=Geraldine |date=March 12, 2008 |title=Re-Enter the Gilded Age |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12rooms.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195815/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12rooms.html |url-status=live}}

When the Frick family moved from Pittsburgh to New York City in 1905, they leased the William H. Vanderbilt House at 640 Fifth Avenue,{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1905 |title=Gets Vanderbilt Twin House? |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85718243/gets-vanderbilt-twin-house/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926120735/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85718243/gets-vanderbilt-twin-house/ |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |access-date=September 21, 2021 |work=The Sun |page=1}}{{Cite news |last=Maeder |first=Jay |date=February 25, 1999 |title=American Sepulchral: Henry Clay Frick |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-american-sepulchral-henry-cl/140331240/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=506 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205214026/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-american-sepulchral-henry-cl/140331240/ |url-status=live}} and Frick expanded his collection during that time.{{cite journal |last=Gutkowski |first=Melanie Linn |date=Spring 2012 |title=Aspiration and Obsession; Henry Clay Frick and the W.H. Vanderbilt House and Collection |url=https://archive.org/details/19thCenturySpring2012 |journal=19th Century |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=29–30 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite journal |last=Quodbach |first=Esmee |date=November 1, 2009 |title='I want this collection to be my monument': Henry Clay Frick and the formation of The Frick Collection |url=https://academic.oup.com/jhc/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |journal=Journal of the History of Collections |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=229–240 |doi=10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |issn=0954-6650 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202114916/https://academic.oup.com/jhc/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }} The collection was spread across their homes in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.{{Cite news |last=Shaw |first=Kurt |date=October 28, 2007 |title=Frick legacy: Book examines life of industrialist's daughter |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |id={{ProQuest|382473031}}}} Thomas Hastings of Carrère and Hastings designed Frick's permanent house at 1 East 70th Street,{{harvnb|ps=.|Skrabec, Jr. |2014|page=210}} which was completed in 1914.{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=November 14, 2014 |title=The Garden at the Frick, and How It Grew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |url-status=live}} The house had been designed with the collection in mind. James Howard Bridge, Frick's personal assistant, was hired as the house's curator in 1914 and worked at the house for fourteen years.{{cite news |date=October 6, 1931 |title=Frick Art Listed Among World's Best Collections: Outstanding Private Accumulation Housed in Perfect Gallery, Experts Agree |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=27 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114140415}}}}{{cite web |date=February 21, 1932 |title=Helen C. Frick Sued by Ex-curator, 73; James H. Bridge Says Daughter of Capitalist Slandered Reputation as Art Specialist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/21/archives/helen-cfrick-sued-by-excurator-73-james-h-bridge-says-daughter-of.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225002/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/21/archives/helen-cfrick-sued-by-excurator-73-james-h-bridge-says-daughter-of.html |url-status=live}} Frick, who was known for being especially particular in his tastes,{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=April 29, 2010 |title=The Frick and Other Grand Private Galleries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/realestate/02streetscapes.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126122632/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/realestate/02streetscapes.html |url-status=live}} spent an estimated $10 million to acquire pieces during his lifetime.{{cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=Masterpieces Left by Frick to Be Given to the Public |work=Boston Daily Globe |page=E5 |id={{ProQuest|503844676}}}} Duveen opened four art-purchasing accounts for Frick, including two accounts specifically for art from Morgan's estate.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=76}}

File:Frickmusjeh.JPG on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.]]

Frick died in 1919 at the age of 69, bequeathing the house as a public museum for his art collection.{{Cite news |date=December 3, 1919 |title=Henry Clay Frick, Pioneer Iron Master and Famous Art Collector, Passes Away |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-henry-clay-frick-pionee/139832346/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Buffalo Courier |pages=1 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-henry-clay-frick-pionee/139832346/ |url-status=live}} His widow Adelaide Howard Childs Frick continued living in the mansion with her daughter Helen;{{cite magazine |date=December 14, 1935 |title=Art: Elaborately Guarded Frick Collection Open After 16 Years |magazine=Newsweek |page=19 |volume=6 |issue=24 |id={{ProQuest|1796842053}}}} if Adelaide died or moved away, the house would be converted to a public museum.{{Cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=$136,000,000 Left by Frick |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-136000000-left-by-frick/139832798/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Times Union |pages=1 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204742/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-136000000-left-by-frick/139832798/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=$65,000,000 for New York Art Gallery |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832659/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832710/ 13] |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204744/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832659/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Andre |first=Mila |date=December 17, 1999 |title=Museo Drive |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=97 |id={{ProQuest|313742866}}}} At the time, the collection alone was worth $30 million,{{cite web |date=May 28, 1921 |title=Frick Art Values Shrink $17,000,000; Collection Originally Estimated at $30,000,000 Appraised in 1919 at $13,000,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/28/archives/frick-art-values-shrink-17000000-collection-originally-estimated-at.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211651/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/28/archives/frick-art-values-shrink-17000000-collection-originally-estimated-at.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=May 28, 1921 |title=Value of Frick's Art Collection Shrinks Over 50% |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|174841032}}}} and Frick also provided a $15 million endowment for the maintenance of the collection. Nine people, including Adelaide, Helen, and Helen's brother Childs, were named as trustees of his estate;{{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Art Fortune Goes to Public By Death of Mrs. H. C. Frick: Fifth Avenue Mansion and Collection of Old Masters, Valued Up to $30,000,000, May Become Museum Under Steel Man's Will |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114223395}}}} Childs served as the head of the Frick estate's board of trustees until his death in 1965.{{cite news |date=May 10, 1965 |title=Childs Frick, 81, Art Patron, Managed Frick Collection |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=34 |id={{ProQuest|915250229}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=May 10, 1965 |title=Childs Frick Dies; Paleontologist: Millionaire Museum Aide Headed Art Collection |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=33 |id={{ProQuest|116840755}}}} Per the terms of Frick's will, the trustees moved to incorporate Frick's art collection in April 1920, submitting articles of incorporation to the New York state government.{{cite web |date=April 8, 1920 |title=Frick Collection Plans; Incorporation Sought in Order to Carry Out Provisions of Will. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/04/08/archives/frick-collection-plans-incorporation-sought-in-order-to-carry-out.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.nytimes.com/1920/04/08/archives/frick-collection-plans-incorporation-sought-in-order-to-carry-out.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=April 8, 1920 |title=Bill Incorporates Frick Collection |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-bill-incorporates-frick/139836783/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=3 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211651/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-bill-incorporates-frick/139836783/ |url-status=live}} The Frick Collection Inc. was incorporated that month.{{Cite news |date=April 15, 1920 |title=Frick Art Collection Is Incorporated |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-frick-art-collect/139835814/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |pages=3 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-frick-art-collect/139835814/ |url-status=live}}

The New York and Pennsylvania state governments fought over which government should collect taxes from Frick's estate.{{cite web |date=June 15, 1921 |title=2 States Fight to Set Big Frick Estate Tax; Surrogate Reserves Decision on Application to Have Financier Declared New York Resident. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/06/15/archives/2-states-fight-to-set-big-frick-estate-tax-surrogate-reserves.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/06/15/archives/2-states-fight-to-set-big-frick-estate-tax-surrogate-reserves.html |url-status=live}} Amid this dispute, the collection was reassessed at $13 million in 1921; this figure was repeated in a revised appraisal of Frick's estate that was filed with the New York state government in 1923.{{cite web |date=March 2, 1923 |title=$92,953,552 Total H. C. Frick Estate; Only $20,932,905 of Realty and Personal Property Is Tax- able in New York. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/02/archives/92953552-total-hc-frick-estate-only-20932905-of-realty-and-personal.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211653/https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/02/archives/92953552-total-hc-frick-estate-only-20932905-of-realty-and-personal.html |url-status=live}} Meanwhile, Helen Frick studied plans for the Witt Library in London in the early 1920s, as she wanted to create a library for Frick's personal collection.{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Jane |date=August 14, 1921 |title=Society Oracle |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-times-society-oracle/139838196/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The Buffalo Times |pages=39 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221003/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-times-society-oracle/139838196/ |url-status=live}} Helen catalogued most of the collection over the next decade. The Frick Art Research Library, originally named the Frick Art Reference Library, was organized at the mansion after Frick's death,{{Cite news |date=February 23, 1922 |title=Henry Clay Frick Reference Library Nearing Completion: Collection Ultimately Will Contain Photographic Reproduction of Ancient and Modern Art Works |work=St. Louis Post – Dispatch |page=18 |id={{ProQuest|578830122}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=February 23, 1922 |title=Frick Library Gives Key to World's Art |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-library-gives-key/139833125/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=11 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204743/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-library-gives-key/139833125/ |url-status=live}} and a dedicated library building opened the next year. During the 1920s, the library added thousands of volumes and photographs to its holdings.{{cite news |date=July 29, 1927 |title=Histories of Family Portraits Sought by Frick Art Library: Home of Great Collection of Portrait Photographs A Secluded Place to Study |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=5B |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|512180943}}}} Over the years, four additional trustees had to be appointed after their predecessors died.

After Adelaide Frick's death in October 1931, the trustees were finally allowed to open the house to the public;{{cite web |date=October 9, 1931 |title=Mrs. Frick Estate Goes to Children; Son and Daughter Divide Bulk of $6,000,000 in Will Filed at Pittsburgh |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/09/archives/mrs-frick-estate-goes-to-children-son-and-daughter-divide-bulk-of.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221003/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/09/archives/mrs-frick-estate-goes-to-children-son-and-daughter-divide-bulk-of.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Death of Mrs. Frick Gives Art Gallery to New York: Collection and House Containing it, Valued at $50,000,000 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=1 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|150128901}}}} they announced in January 1933 that the collection would likely open to the public within a year.{{cite news |date=January 19, 1933 |title=Frick Art Collection Will Be Put On Public Display Within Year: $2,000,000 5th Ave. Chateau Housing Treasures To Be Made a Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221650499}}}}{{cite web |date=January 19, 1933 |title=Public to Receive Frick Art in Fall; Trustees of His $50,000,000 Collection Will Open Centre in Fifth Avenue Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/19/archives/public-to-receive-frick-art-in-fall-trustees-of-his-50000000.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225000/https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/19/archives/public-to-receive-frick-art-in-fall-trustees-of-his-50000000.html |url-status=live}} John Russell Pope was hired to alter and enlarge the house.{{cite nycland |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwYcSFtdE_AC&pg=PA163 162–163]}} Frederick Mortimer Clapp, who had joined the Frick Collection as an advisor in 1931,{{Cite news |last=Horsley |first=Carter B. |date=December 17, 1969 |title=Frederick Clapp of Frick Museum; Founding Director, 90, Dies – Organized Art Treasure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/17/archives/frederick-clapp-of-frick-museum-founding-director-90-dies-organized.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/17/archives/frederick-clapp-of-frick-museum-founding-director-90-dies-organized.html |url-status=live}} was hired as the museum's first director.{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|page=99}} Work on the mansion began in December 1933.{{cite news |date=December 3, 1933 |title=Frick Mansion To Be Altered Into Museum: Workmen Already Busy Remodeling House at 5th Av. and 71st St. for Art |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114674666}}}} A new library wing was constructed on 71st Street to replace the original library.{{cite web |date=July 1, 1934 |title=New Frick Library to Open in October; Structure in 71st Street Will Contain Noted Collection of Art Photographs. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/07/01/archives/new-frick-library-to-open-in-october-structure-in-71st-street-will.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225004/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/07/01/archives/new-frick-library-to-open-in-october-structure-in-71st-street-will.html |url-status=live}} Other modifications included a new storage vault and renovations of the Frick family's living space.{{cite news |last=Rhodenbaugh |first=Harold |date=December 15, 1935 |title=$50,000,000 Frick Art Collection Opens to Public View Tomorrow in New York: His Mansion Is Converted Into Museum Cultural World Eager to See Fabulous Works of Masters. Death of Industrial Titan's Widow Permits Release of Legacy. |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=SS5 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|150577112}}}} The museum's opening, originally scheduled for 1934, was postponed because of the complexity of the construction project.{{cite web |date=February 22, 1934 |title=Frick Art Showing Delayed Till Fall; Unexpected Difficulties Are Met in Turning Residence Into Public Gallery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/22/archives/frick-art-showing-delayed-till-fall-unexpected-difficulties-are-met.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225003/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/22/archives/frick-art-showing-delayed-till-fall-unexpected-difficulties-are-met.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} The Frick estate also sued the city government in 1935 to obtain a property-tax exemption for the museum,{{cite news |date=June 18, 1935 |title=Frick Gallery Sues for City Tax Exemption: Asks Court to Void 5 Million Assessment on Plea Art Was Willed to Public Library Is Included Justice Walsh Sets Sept. 30 for Hearing of Plea |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221591498}}}}{{Cite news |date=June 18, 1935 |title=Frick Art Gallery Asks Tax Exemption; Fights $5,000,000 Assessment and Gets Order for Review – University Club Acts, Too. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/06/18/archives/frick-art-gallery-asks-tax-exemption-fights-5000000-assessment-and.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201014800/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/06/18/archives/frick-art-gallery-asks-tax-exemption-fights-5000000-assessment-and.html |url-status=live}} and the taxes were waived the next year, as the Frick Collection was a public museum.{{cite news |date=May 22, 1936 |title=Tax Exemption On the Morgan Library Ended: $12,000,000 Collection of Art and Books Not Open to the Public, City Rules $48,000 Already Due Frick Gallery Need Not Pay Levies, Windels Holds |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1237440297}}}}File:Frick Art Reference Library - interior.jpg

When the rebuilt library opened in January 1935,{{cite web |date=January 15, 1935 |title=New Frick Library Opened to Students; Art Reference Centre Resumes Service After Moving Into $850,000 Building. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/15/archives/new-frick-library-opened-to-students-art-reference-centre-resumes.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225002/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/15/archives/new-frick-library-opened-to-students-art-reference-centre-resumes.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=January 6, 1935 |title=Frick Library Of Art Opens in Its New Home: Pre-View Held in 7-Story Building Housing 200,000 Pictorial Reproductions Adjoins Site of Gallery $50,000,000 Collection To Be on Exhibition Soon Views of the Imposing New Frick Art Reference Library |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=25 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1223551353}}}} it had 200,000 photographs, 18,000 catalogs of art sales, and 45,000 books.{{Cite magazine |title=Art: Helen Clay Frick Opens Home for Her Hobby |magazine=Newsweek |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=January 12, 1935 |pages=26–27 |id={{ProQuest|1797093787}}}} The museum itself had a soft opening on December 11, 1935;{{cite web |date=December 12, 1935 |title=700 See Treasures of Frick Gallery; Steelmaker's Mansion Begins Career as Museum With Preview to Guests |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/700-see-treasures-of-frick-gallery-steelmakers-mansion-begins.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224959/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/700-see-treasures-of-frick-gallery-steelmakers-mansion-begins.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=December 12, 1935 |title=Frick Gallery Of Art Opens With 700 at Its Preview: Vast Treasure, Centered on 136 Master Paintings, Becomes Accessible to Public Monday Donor's Children Receive the Guests Collection's Purchase of Morgan Painting Made Known; Value of Works Is Called $50,000,000 |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221727004}}}} the preview was noteworthy enough that the names of 700 visitors were published in that day's New York Herald Tribune.{{cite news |date=June 17, 2010 |title=Frick museum celebrates its 75th birthday:: Art museum welcomes 300,000 visitors annually |work=Charleston Daily Mail |page=D.6 |id={{ProQuest|506235636}} |agency=Associated Press}} The Frick Collection officially opened to the public five days later on December 16.{{cite web |date=December 17, 1935 |title=Frick Art Museum Opened to Public; 750 View Superb Collection in Former Home of Donor – Same Number to See It Daily. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/17/archives/frick-art-museum-opened-to-public-750-view-superb-collection-in.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225001/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/17/archives/frick-art-museum-opened-to-public-750-view-superb-collection-in.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=December 17, 1935 |title=Frick Museum Opens to Public As 700 See Art: Director Calls First Day a Success; Lecture Tour Is Planned for Visitors |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=21 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1242909040}}}} When it opened, the museum did not charge admission fees,{{Cite news |date=December 22, 1935 |title=5,000 In First Week See Frick Collection; Attendance at Museum Averaged 830 With All Requests Filled Except for Yesterday. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/22/archives/5000-in-first-week-see-frick-collection-attendance-at-museum.html |access-date=January 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131020121/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/22/archives/5000-in-first-week-see-frick-collection-attendance-at-museum.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1266817851}} |title=5,000 See Frick Collection |date=December 22, 1935 |page=17A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646}} but staff distributed timed-entry tickets to prevent crowding.{{cite news |date=December 12, 1935 |title=Canvases of Masters Viewed At Opening of Frick Gallery: Fifth Avenue Mansion Becomes Art Center |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=15 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513922219}}}} Although about 600 tickets were distributed daily to people who showed up in person,{{cite news |last=Sherburne |first=Ernest C. |date=February 12, 1936 |title=The Frick Collection: Like the Wallace Collection in London, Which Henry Clay Frick Regarded as a Model, the New Museum in New York Uses the Family Residence to House Some Rare Treasures .. The Frick Collection: A Gallery of Treasures |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=WM8 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513933607}}}} other visitors had to make reservations several weeks in advance due to high demand. Ropes were placed throughout the house to force visitors to follow a specific path. The galleries were originally closed on holidays, Sundays, and for a month in the middle of the year. Artworks were arranged based on how they blended in with the house's ambiance, rather than being arranged by year.{{Cite news |date=June 2, 1964 |title=New York Full of Treasures |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-statesman-new-york-full-of-tr/139714760/ |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The Herald Statesman |pages=9 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203235713/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-statesman-new-york-full-of-tr/139714760/ |url-status=live}}

Within a year of the museum's opening, demand had declined enough that officials decided to scale down, and then eliminate, its timed-entry ticketing system.{{Cite news |date=January 31, 1937 |title=Frick Gallery Drew 135,523 Last Year; Report Shows an Average of 460 Visitors Daily to Art Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/31/archives/frick-gallery-drew-135523-last-year-report-shows-an-average-of-460.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201034420/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/31/archives/frick-gallery-drew-135523-last-year-report-shows-an-average-of-460.html |url-status=live}} The ropes throughout the house were taken down, and visitors were allowed to visit the Frick House's rooms in any order.{{cite news |date=November 23, 1937 |title=Frick Collection Buys David Work |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1240614945}}}}{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|page=109}} Museum officials also presented lectures five days a week during the late 1930s, and they started hosting afternoon concert series in November 1938;{{cite news |date=November 3, 1938 |title=Frick Collection Lists Chamber Music Series |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1313535243}}}} these concerts and lectures continued throughout Clapp's tenure at the museum. Clapp also obtained fresh flowers each day and placed them in the first-floor galleries for esthetic purposes. Three magnolia trees were planted on the grounds in 1939.{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Magnolias |url=https://www.frick.org/about/gardens/magnolias |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201173908/https://www.frick.org/about/gardens/magnolias |url-status=live}} To expand their land holdings, museum officials bought a neighboring townhouse at 9 East 70th Street in 1940{{cite web |date=November 15, 1940 |title=Frick Collection Buys Home Near Art Gallery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/15/archives/frick-collection-buys-home-near-art-gallery.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/15/archives/frick-collection-buys-home-near-art-gallery.html |url-status=live}} and used that building as storage space.{{Cite news |last=Horsley |first=Carter B. |date=June 15, 1973 |title=Frick Plans Garden on Widener Site |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/15/archives/frick-plans-garden-on-widener-site-building-designed-in-13-two.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201745/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/15/archives/frick-plans-garden-on-widener-site-building-designed-in-13-two.html |url-status=live}}

Museum officials constructed a vault in 1941 to protect the artwork from air raids.{{cite web |date=December 13, 1941 |title=Frick Art Works Prepared for Raids; Concrete and Steel Underground Chamber Being Built |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/13/archives/frick-art-works-prepared-for-raids-concrete-and-steel-underground.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/13/archives/frick-art-works-prepared-for-raids-concrete-and-steel-underground.html |url-status=live}} During World War II, the museum continued to host visitors, but some rooms were closed,{{cite web |last=Jewell |first=Edward Alden |date=August 9, 1942 |title=Changes at the Frick; Some Works Withdrawn as a Wartime Precaution, but Much of Interest Remains |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/08/09/archives/changes-at-the-frick-some-works-withdrawn-as-a-wartime-precaution.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1942/08/09/archives/changes-at-the-frick-some-works-withdrawn-as-a-wartime-precaution.html |url-status=live}} and more than five dozen paintings and all of the sculptures were moved into storage.{{cite web |date=February 2, 1944 |title=Frick Collection Buys Rare Statue; Bronze Angel That Stood for Many Years in the Morgan Library Is Privately Sold |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/02/archives/frick-collection-buys-rare-statue-bronze-angel-that-stood-for-many.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806213844/https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/02/archives/frick-collection-buys-rare-statue-bronze-angel-that-stood-for-many.html |url-status=live}} Museum officials took these pieces out of storage in May 1945 and restored them; other artworks in the house were rearranged and cleaned as well.{{cite news |date=May 6, 1945 |title=At the Frick |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=X2 |id={{ProQuest|107109857}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=May 6, 1945 |title=Frick Paintings Removed From War Hide-Away: 70 of Collection's Fines Were Kept in Rock Vault a Step From the Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1267958057}}}} The Frick acquired another townhouse at 7 East 70th Street in 1947{{cite news |date=January 24, 1947 |title=Frick Collection Buys Town House: Adds the 37-room James Residence on 70th St. To Adjacent Holdings |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=35 |id={{ProQuest|107865374}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=January 24, 1947 |title=Frick Interests Take Dwelling In East 70th St: Collection Acquires James Residence of 37 Rooms: Former Taylor Home Sold |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=25A |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1291278526}}}} and replaced it with a service wing. By the late 1940s, the museum had cumulatively spent about $2.9 million in acquisitions since Frick's death.{{cite web |date=May 1, 1948 |title=Decision Reserved in Frick Gift Case; Action Brought to Determine Trustees' Right to Accept Donations to Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/05/01/archives/decision-reserved-in-frick-gift-case-action-brought-to-determine.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1948/05/01/archives/decision-reserved-in-frick-gift-case-action-brought-to-determine.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=May 1, 1948 |title=Miss Frick Tells Father's View of Art Collection: Testifies He Was To Sole Benefactor; Rockefeller Gift Put at $1,700,000 |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327360882}}}} When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered to donate several pieces of artwork in 1948, Helen Frick objected, arguing that the museum only accepted gifts from Frick family members.{{cite news |date=January 30, 1948 |title=Philanthropists Lock Horns Over Gift to Frick Collection |work=Los Angeles Times |page=1 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|165792667}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Beckley |first=Paul |date=January 30, 1948 |title=Frick Trustees Seek Court Rule On Gifts of Art: Miss Helen Frick Opposes Addition of Rockefeller Paintings to Collection |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=16 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327379027}}}} In the lawsuit that followed, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that the terms of Frick's will did not prevent the museum from accepting external gifts;{{cite web |date=July 13, 1948 |title=Court Opens Way to Frick Art Gifts; Daughter Loses Fight to Bar Rockefeller Donation of Six Paintings Worth $1,700,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/13/archives/court-opens-way-to-frick-art-gifts-daughter-loses-fight-to-bar.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192414/https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/13/archives/court-opens-way-to-frick-art-gifts-daughter-loses-fight-to-bar.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=July 13, 1948 |title=Frick Trustees Can Accept Gift Of Rockefeller: Court Denies Contention of Founder's Daughter Will Bars Outside Donations |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326817880}}}} the court's Appellate Division upheld this ruling.{{cite web |date=February 2, 1949 |title=Frick Art Expansion Sustained on Appeal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/02/archives/frick-art-expansion-sustained-on-appeal.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194205/https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/02/archives/frick-art-expansion-sustained-on-appeal.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=February 2, 1949 |title=Frick Museum Is Upheld In Accepting Outside Gifts |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326781127}}}} Rockefeller, who had been on the board of trustees, resigned amid the dispute.

Clapp resigned in 1951 and was replaced by the museum's assistant director Franklin M. Biebel.{{cite web |date=January 15, 1951 |title=Biebel is New Head of Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/15/archives/biebel-is-new-head-of-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194205/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/15/archives/biebel-is-new-head-of-frick-collection.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=January 15, 1951 |title=Clapp Resigns As Director of Frick Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1322417302}}}} Biebel established a decorative-arts conservation program, and the number of annual visitors nearly doubled under his tenure.{{Cite news |date=September 24, 1966 |title=Franklin Biebel of the Frick Dies; Directed Art Collection Left by Steel Magnate 13 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/franklin-biebel-of-the-frick-dies-directed-art-collection-left-by.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/franklin-biebel-of-the-frick-dies-directed-art-collection-left-by.html |url-status=live}} The museum's collection remained largely unchanged over the next several years, as Helen Frick opposed any expansions, saying that her father would not have wanted items to be added.{{cite news |last=Folliard |first=Edward T. |date=March 12, 1961 |title=Mellon Treasure House Marking 20th Year |work=The Washington Post, Times Herald |page=G1 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|141304086}}}} Helen resigned from the museum's board of trustees in 1961,{{cite web |last=Sheets |first=Hilarie M. |date=March 20, 2025 |title=Discover the Story Behind the Reimagined Frick Collection in New York |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/frick-collection-renovation |access-date=March 22, 2025 |website=Galerie Magazine}} after the board finally voted to accept Rockefeller's gift.{{cite web |date=January 19, 1961 |title=Miss Frick Moves to Quit Museum; Daughter of Founder Seeks to Resign Over Acceptance of Rockefeller Bequest |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/19/archives/miss-frick-moves-to-quit-museum-daughter-of-founder-seeks-to-resign.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214848/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/19/archives/miss-frick-moves-to-quit-museum-daughter-of-founder-seeks-to-resign.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |last=Sugrue |first=Francis |date=January 18, 1961 |title=Frick's Daughter Quits Museum Post Over Acceptance of Rockefeller Art: She Takes Action in Letter to the Herald Tribune |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=21 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326058910}}}} Assistant director Harry D. M. Grier replaced Biebel, becoming the museum's third director in 1964.{{cite web |date=June 5, 1964 |title=Harry Grier is Appointed Frick Collection's Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/05/archives/harry-grier-is-appointed-frick-collections-director.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214849/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/05/archives/harry-grier-is-appointed-frick-collections-director.html |url-status=live}} By the mid-1960s, the Frick had 160 portraits, 80 sculptures, and various other items in its collection. The Frick was open six days a week (except in August, when it was closed) and was still free to enter.{{cite news |date=June 7, 1963 |title=N.Y. Gives Museum Buffs a Break: Class by Itself |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=7 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510495844}}}} The collection was small compared to that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which at the time had 365,000 items. Edgar Munhall was hired as the museum's first chief curator in 1965, a position he would hold for thirty-five years.{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=October 21, 2016 |title=Edgar Munhall, First Curator of the Frick Collection, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/edgar-munhall-first-curator-of-the-frick-collection-dies-at-83.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195817/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/edgar-munhall-first-curator-of-the-frick-collection-dies-at-83.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=October 22, 2016 |title=Edgar Munhall, 83, first curator of the Frick Collection |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2016/10/22/edgar-munhall-first-curator-frick-collection/mZuqp3cigy9s9Xr5TRa3hJ/story.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The Boston Globe |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195816/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2016/10/22/edgar-munhall-first-curator-frick-collection/mZuqp3cigy9s9Xr5TRa3hJ/story.html |url-status=live}} As part of a master plan in 1967,{{Cite news |last=Iovine |first=Julie V. |date=December 17, 2014 |title=In Defense of the Frick |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-the-frick-1418772142 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=D.5 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|1636584902}} |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005742/https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-the-frick-1418772142 |url-status=live}} the Frick's trustees drew up plans for an annex at 7 and 9 East 70th Street.{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=November 14, 2014 |title=The Garden at the Frick, and How It Grew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |url-status=live}}

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By the early 1970s, the museum recorded about 800 daily visitors{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=April 29, 1970 |title=With Minimum of Fanfare, Frick Collection Turns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/29/archives/with-minimum-of-fanfare-frick-collection-turns-50.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214848/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/29/archives/with-minimum-of-fanfare-frick-collection-turns-50.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and employed 75 staff members. The next year, the museum began asking visitors to pay an optional admission fee due to rising taxes and expenses.{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=July 7, 1971 |title=Frick Collection Seeks to Stave Off Tax |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/07/archives/frick-collection-seeks-to-stave-off-tax.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201746/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/07/archives/frick-collection-seeks-to-stave-off-tax.html |url-status=live}} After Grier was killed in a traffic accident in 1972,{{Cite news |date=June 1, 1972 |title=Harry D. M. Grier of Frick Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/01/archives/harry-d-m-grier-of-frick-museum-collections-director-since-64.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/01/archives/harry-d-m-grier-of-frick-museum-collections-director-since-64.html |url-status=live}} Everett Fahy was appointed as the museum's fourth director in 1973.{{cite web |last=Shirey |first=David L. |date=May 20, 1973 |title=Everett Fahy of the Met Is Narned. Frick Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/20/archives/everett-fahy-of-the-met-is-named-frick-director.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214847/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/20/archives/everett-fahy-of-the-met-is-named-frick-director.html |url-status=live}} The museum announced plans to construct an annex at 5–9 East 70th Street.{{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=November 28, 1973 |title=Frick Drops Plan for Its New Wing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/28/archives/frick-drops-plan-for-its-new-wing-garden-and-terrace-to-be-created.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/28/archives/frick-drops-plan-for-its-new-wing-garden-and-terrace-to-be-created.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} After the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) expressed concerns over the fact that the expansion would require the demolition of the Widener House at 5 East 70th Street,{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=Michael |date=March 15, 1973 |title=Frick Planning to Raze Widener Town House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/15/archives/frick-planning-to-raze-widener-town-house.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201749/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/15/archives/frick-planning-to-raze-widener-town-house.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=March 15, 1973 |title=Frick Dooms Town House |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-frick-dooms-town-house/140110384/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201746/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-frick-dooms-town-house/140110384/ |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=450}} the museum announced a plan for a "temporary garden" on the 70th Street lots, which the LPC approved.{{cite web |first=Carter B. |last=Horsley |title=Widener Mansion is Coming Down |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 9, 1973 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/09/archives/widener-mansion-is-coming-down-museum-is-given-approval-to-demolish.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005719/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/09/archives/widener-mansion-is-coming-down-museum-is-given-approval-to-demolish.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=July 9, 1973 |title=Garden to Grow at Frick Museum |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-garden-to-grow-at-frick-museu/140111768/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=50 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-garden-to-grow-at-frick-museu/140111768/ |url-status=live}} The original annex was canceled that November, and Frick officials subsequently decided to build a one-story wing on the Widener House's site.{{Cite news |date=May 17, 1974 |title=The Frick Changes Plan for Vacant Plot, Proposing 2d Wing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/17/archives/the-frick-changes-plan-for-vacant-plot-proposing-2d-wing.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/17/archives/the-frick-changes-plan-for-vacant-plot-proposing-2d-wing.html |url-status=live}} The annex had been proposed because, at the time, the mansion could accommodate only 250 people at once.{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Amei |date=January 23, 1977 |title=Frick Collection's New Room Is Worth Waiting For |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-collecti/139790230/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=89 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-collecti/139790230/ |url-status=live}}

Under Fahy's tenure, the museum began hosting more temporary exhibits, which it had seldom held before Fahy took over.{{Cite news |date=January 23, 1979 |title=Frick shows loaned Fragonard drawings |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-shows-lo/140113951/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=110 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-shows-lo/140113951/ |url-status=live}} The Frick began charging admission for the first time in 1976.{{cite web |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |date=March 1, 1977 |title=Frick Addition Echoes Original, a Holdover From Innocent Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/frick-addition-echoes-original-a-holdover-from-innocent-times.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/frick-addition-echoes-original-a-holdover-from-innocent-times.html |url-status=live}} The annex was completed the next year, along with a garden, designed by British landscape architect Russell Page.{{Cite news |last=Howe |first=Marvine |date=January 6, 1985 |title=Russell Page, British Planner of Gardens and Landscapes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/world/russell-page-british-planner-of-gardens-and-landscapes.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214606/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/world/russell-page-british-planner-of-gardens-and-landscapes.html |url-status=live}} The Frick renovated the Boucher Room and cleaned and rearranged its paintings during the following decade.{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=July 24, 1981 |title=A Guide to the Discreet Changes at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/arts/a-guide-to-the-discreet-changes-at-the-frick.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/arts/a-guide-to-the-discreet-changes-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}} By the mid-1980s, the museum displayed 169 works of art,{{Cite news |last=Mays |first=John Bentley |date=October 25, 1985 |title=Seeing Old Masters With New Eyes |work=The Globe and Mail |page=D9 |id={{ProQuest|1222376533}}}} and the galleries occupied 16 rooms.{{cite news |last=Garrett |first=Robert |date=August 14, 1988 |title=Masters of the House: New York's Frick Collection |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1988/08/14/the-garden-court-at-the-frick-collection/fdedec73-1609-49a7-8a7f-480005a9a224/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=83 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|139447378}}}} The museum periodically hosted chamber music performances in the Frick House's courtyard.{{Cite news |last=Ulmanis |first=Silvija |date=January 19, 1985 |title=Museums in New York: Everything From Picasso to Dogs |work=The London Gazette |page=H3 |id={{ProQuest|431185641}}}} It was relatively low-profile compared to others in New York City, only sporadically expanding its collection and hosting small temporary exhibitions.{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=January 9, 1987 |title=Frick Awaits New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/frick-awaits-new-director.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005721/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/frick-awaits-new-director.html |url-status=live}} After Helen Frick died in 1984, the museum took over responsibility for the Frick Art Research Library; initially, the library had no endowment as Helen had not provided anything for the library in her will.{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=John |date=March 21, 1993 |title=Art View; Trouble at the Nonpareil of Art Libraries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/arts/art-view-trouble-at-the-nonpareil-of-art-libraries.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205015825/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/arts/art-view-trouble-at-the-nonpareil-of-art-libraries.html |url-status=live}} Ceiling lights were installed in the Fragonard and Boucher rooms in the 1980s.{{cite news |date=December 9, 2010 |title=Gallery by Gallery Improvements at Frick Museum |work=Italian Voice |page=4 |id={{ProQuest|824553202}}}}

Charles Ryskamp, the former director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, was appointed as the Frick's fifth director in December 1986 after Fahy's resignation,{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=December 19, 1986 |title=The Frick Gets New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/19/arts/the-frick-gets-new-director.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214531/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/19/arts/the-frick-gets-new-director.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=December 19, 1986 |title=Frick Collection Names New Director |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-frick-collection-names-new-direc/140185691/ |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=194 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214940/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-frick-collection-names-new-direc/140185691/ |url-status=live}} though he did not assume that position for another six months. Under Ryskamp's directorship, some of the paintings were rearranged or brought out of storage.{{cite web |last=Deitz |first=Paula |date=April 10, 1988 |title=Art; Charles Ryskamp Brings a New Look To the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/art-charles-ryskamp-brings-a-new-look-to-the-frick.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010557/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/art-charles-ryskamp-brings-a-new-look-to-the-frick.html |url-status=live}} By the 1990s, the art reference library was low on funds; the library had a $25 million endowment by 1993, and the Frick began charging "frequent commercial users" of the library that year.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Inside Art |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=December 17, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/inside-art.html |access-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223212647/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/inside-art.html |url-status=live }} Through the 1990s, the Frick banned all children under the age of 10, as well as unaccompanied minors between ages 10 and 15,{{Cite news |last=Wasserman |first=Joanne |date=January 14, 1994 |title=A risk of art attack |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-risk-of-art-attack/140312747/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=1916 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180925/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-risk-of-art-attack/140312747/ |url-status=live}} and the museum also did not have a café.{{cite web |last=Asimov |first=Eric |date=November 13, 1992 |title=Sating the Eyes And Satisfying The Appetite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/arts/sating-the-eyes-and-satisfying-the-appetite.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726154125/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/arts/sating-the-eyes-and-satisfying-the-appetite.html |url-status=live}} The New York City government passed a law banning public institutions from discriminating by age in 1993, which would have forced the museum to start admitting children.{{Cite news |last=Wasserman |first=Joanne |date=January 11, 1994 |title=Debate rages over kids' rights |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-debate-rages-over-kids-right/140313844/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=336 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180927/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-debate-rages-over-kids-right/140313844/ |url-status=live}} Museum officials requested a waiver, saying that they would have to install barriers if children were allowed,{{Cite news |last=Fein |first=Esther B. |date=December 4, 1993 |title=New York to Bar Age Bias in Public Places |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-age-bias-in-public-places.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204164257/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-age-bias-in-public-places.html |url-status=live}} and they received such a waiver in 1995.{{Cite web |date=July 2009 |title=Policy on the Admission of Children |url=https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/ChildPolicy.pdf |access-date=February 5, 2024 |publisher=The Frick Collection |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/ChildPolicy.pdf |url-status=live}} In addition, further lighting upgrades were made in the mid-1990s.

Ryskamp announced his retirement in 1997.{{Cite news |last=Abbe |first=Mary |date=May 14, 1997 |title=Samuel Sachs II will head New York's Frick art museum |work=Star Tribune |page=4.B |id={{ProQuest|426838303}}}} After Samuel Sachs II was named as the museum's sixth director that May,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=May 13, 1997 |title=Frick Finds Its Director In Detroit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/13/arts/frick-finds-its-director-in-detroit.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029160039/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/13/arts/frick-finds-its-director-in-detroit.html |url-status=live}} the trustees tasked him with raising funds.{{Cite news |last=Fabrikant |first=Geraldine |date=March 29, 2006 |title=New Money Dances With Old Money at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/artsspecial/new-money-dances-with-old-money-at-the-frick.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201745/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/artsspecial/new-money-dances-with-old-money-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}} Under Sachs's directorship, the museum launched a website in the 1990s, and replaced the lighting and hosted additional special exhibitions.{{cite news |last=Mandell |first=Jonathan |date=September 20, 1998 |title=On Museums / Monet Mania Hits the Frick – Well, Almost |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=D13 |id={{ProQuest|279143382}}}} Sachs also contemplated expanding the exhibition space, adding a café, and relocating the entrance to the house's garden. In addition, the museum began providing complimentary audio guides for the mansion and artworks{{Cite news |last=Vikan |first=Gary |date=October 11, 1998 |title=Henry Clay Frick: Urge to Collect |work=The Sun |page=7F |id={{ProQuest|313742866}}}} and, in the early 21st century, added the Bloomberg Connects smartphone app.{{cite web | last=Eisenpress | first=Cara | title=How arts organizations got the app they needed-for free | website=Crain's New York Business | date=December 20, 2022 | url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/arts/museums-collaborate-bloomberg-philanthropies-free-audio-guide-app | access-date=April 10, 2024}} Museum officials also began allowing parties to be hosted in the Frick House.{{cite web |last=Hamilton |first=William L. |date=March 12, 2008 |title=Throwing a Bash? Surround It With Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12events.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195817/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12events.html |url-status=live}} A group named Friends of the Fellows of the Frick Collection was formed to raise interest in the museum.{{cite web |last1=Barron |first1=James |last2=Brescia |first2=Joe |date=July 6, 1999 |title=Public Lives|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/nyregion/public-lives.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212910/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/nyregion/public-lives.html |url-status=live}}

Colin Bailey was appointed as chief curator in 2000 after Munhall resigned.{{Cite news |date=June 9, 2000 |title=Chief curator of National Gallery leaves for small but important Frick museum in New York |work=National Post |page=B7 |id={{ProQuest|329660518}}}} During the late 1990s, the Helen Clay Frick Foundation proposed moving its archives in Pittsburgh to the Frick Collection's archives, prompting an intra-family debate over whether the collections should be merged.{{Cite news |last=Lowry |first=Patricia |date=December 19, 1999 |title=Frick Papers Spark Feud; 3 in Family Balk at Moving Them From Here to N.y. |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |page=A-1 |id={{ProQuest|391386264}}}} The foundation's collection ultimately was split between the two cities in 2001, and most of the objects were sent to New York City.{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=March 6, 2001 |title=Frick Mementos to Be Restored in New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/frick-mementos-to-be-restored-in-new-york.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212909/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/frick-mementos-to-be-restored-in-new-york.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Lowry |first=Patricia |date=March 6, 2001 |title=Frick Archives May Be Split Between City and New York |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |page=A-1 |id={{ProQuest|392042089}}}} After attendance dropped following the September 11 attacks that year, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided $270,000, in part to fund extended hours on Fridays.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Inside Art |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 26, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/inside-art.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/inside-art.html |url-status=live}} Sachs announced in January 2003 that he would resign as the museum's director in eight months,{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=January 9, 2003 |title=After Gently Modernizing the Frick, Director Plans to Leave |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/arts/after-gently-modernizing-the-frick-director-plans-to-leave.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922065937/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/arts/after-gently-modernizing-the-frick-director-plans-to-leave.html |url-status=live}} as the board of trustees had not renewed his contract. At the time of Sachs's resignation, the museum recorded 350,000 annual visitors, 20 percent more than in 1997, but it was running at a $1 million annual deficit.{{cite web |last=Eakin |first=Hugh |date=July 31, 2005 |title=Making a Less Fusty Frick (and Hoping Nobody Notices) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/making-a-less-fusty-frick-and-hoping-nobody-notices.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195824/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/making-a-less-fusty-frick-and-hoping-nobody-notices.html |url-status=live}} Annexes to the museum were proposed in 2001, 2005, and 2008,{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 10, 2014 |title=Frick Seeks to Expand Beyond Jewel-Box Spaces |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/arts/design/frick-plans-changes-but-vows-to-stay-the-same.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006045729/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/arts/design/frick-plans-changes-but-vows-to-stay-the-same.html |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} but all of these plans were canceled because it would have required an extended closure of the museum and still would not have provided sufficient space.

The art scholar Anne L. Poulet was hired in August 2003 as the Frick's first female director,{{cite news |last=Muchnic |first=Suzanne |date=December 28, 2003 |title=Eye on the Frick; Anne Litle Poulet draws attention as the first woman to serve as director of the famed New York collection. |work=Los Angeles Times |page=E48 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|421871142}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=August 5, 2003 |title=Boston Curator Chosen To Direct the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/arts/boston-curator-chosen-to-direct-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/arts/boston-curator-chosen-to-direct-the-frick.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} and the museum was reorganized as a tax-exempt public charity shortly after Poulet became the director. Under Poulet's tenure, she replaced lighting in several galleries and rearranged some of the pieces. She also raised $55 million for renovations;{{cite news |last=Landi |first=Ann |date=December 15, 2010 |title=Museum: The Frick at a Glowing 75 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704457604576011501026027710 |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=D6 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|817587039}} |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419193155/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704457604576011501026027710 |url-status=live}} the museum's facilities had become dated, and the basement exhibition space was no longer sufficient. Because of the Frick's classification as a charity, the museum had to raise a third of its budget from donations. The Frick created programs to attract major donors and art collectors, and it began charging admission fees for concerts in 2005.{{cite web |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=June 30, 2005 |title=Frick's Concert Tickets Go From Free to $20 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/music/fricks-concert-tickets-go-from-free-to-20.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205190146/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/music/fricks-concert-tickets-go-from-free-to-20.html |url-status=live}} During the 2000s decade, the Frick did not acquire many additional items. In contrast to larger museums, it generally hosted small, detailed exhibits, though the number of short-term exhibitions at the Frick increased during the decade.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=August 28, 2008 |title=Change Arrives on Tiptoes at the Old Frick Mansion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105091532/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html |url-status=live}} Further restorations of the museum's galleries took place through the late 2000s to attract visitors.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=January 7, 2010 |title=A Fresh Makeover for Familiar Faces at Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214153/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html |url-status=live}}

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Poulet announced her retirement in September 2010,{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=September 22, 2010 |title=Director of Frick Collection Will Retire in Fall of 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/arts/design/23museum.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107133833/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/arts/design/23museum.html |url-status=live}} and Ian Wardropper was hired as the museum's director in 2011.{{Cite news |date=June 2, 2011 |title=Ian Wardropper Named Next Director of the Frick Collection |work=Italian Voice |page=6 |id={{ProQuest|872185925}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Kate |last2=Vogel |first2=Carol |date=May 19, 2011 |title=The Frick Collection Names a New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/the-frick-collection-names-a-new-director.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029155954/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/the-frick-collection-names-a-new-director.html |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} A sculpture gallery, designed by Davis Brody Bond, opened at the Frick House in December 2011, becoming the first new gallery at the museum in three decades.{{cite web |last=Russeth |first=Andrew |date=December 14, 2011 |title=Frick Collection Grows a Gallery |url=https://observer.com/2011/12/frick-collection-grows-a-gallery/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://observer.com/2011/12/frick-collection-grows-a-gallery/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Kahn |first=Eve M. |date=December 8, 2011 |title=Patent Models, Roger Broders Posters, Meissen Porcelain |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/patent-models-roger-broders-posters-meissen-porcelain.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214146/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/patent-models-roger-broders-posters-meissen-porcelain.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Owens |first=Mitchell |date=January 1, 2012 |title=New Sculpture Gallery at the Frick Collection |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-sculpture-portico-gallery-article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-sculpture-portico-gallery-article |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest}} Bailey resigned as the chief curator in 2013,{{cite web |last=Finkel |first=Jori |date=October 23, 2014 |title=Colin Bailey Revamps San Francisco Art Museums |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/artsspecial/colin-bailey-revamps-san-francisco-art-museums.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207024320/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/artsspecial/colin-bailey-revamps-san-francisco-art-museums.html |url-status=live}} and Xavier F. Salomon was hired as the chief curator the same year.{{cite web |last=Duray |first=Dan |date=November 4, 2013 |title=Xavier F. Salomon, 34, Named New Frick Collection Chief Curator |url=https://observer.com/2013/11/xavier-f-salomon-34-named-new-frick-collection-chief-curator/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Observer |postscript=none |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005649/https://observer.com/2013/11/xavier-f-salomon-34-named-new-frick-collection-chief-curator/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=November 4, 2013 |title=New Chief Curator for the Frick |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/new-chief-curator-for-the-frick/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=ArtsBeat |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104201559/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/new-chief-curator-for-the-frick/ |url-status=live}} During the 2010s, the Frick began raising $290 million for its renovation.{{cite web |last=Tremayne-Pengelly |first=Alexandra |date=November 6, 2023 |title=The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal for Renovations |url=https://observer.com/2023/11/frick-collection-nearing-290m-renovation-goal/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://observer.com/2023/11/frick-collection-nearing-290m-renovation-goal/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=January 3, 2024 |title=Frick Leader to Step Down After 14-Year Run |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |url-status=live}} The collection had reached more than 1,100 works by the mid-2010s.{{cite web |last=Pitz |first=Marylynne |date=November 23, 2014 |title=New York's Frick Collection to expand |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/11/23/New-York-s-Frick-Collection-to-expand/stories/201411230016 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002010950/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/11/23/New-York-s-Frick-Collection-to-expand/stories/201411230016 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Jennifer |title=Flak Over the Frick Collection's Expansion Plans |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/flak-over-the-frick-collections-expansion-plans-1418335367 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=December 12, 2014 |page=A.17 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005707/https://www.wsj.com/articles/flak-over-the-frick-collections-expansion-plans-1418335367 |url-status=live}}{{Efn|A New York Times article from 2014 described the collection as having 1,200 works, while a Wall Street Journal article from the same year gives a figure of 1,115 works.}} In addition, the museum was hosting an average of five temporary exhibits per year. The Frick House's facilities were not adequate for the museum's modern needs. For example, paintings had to be carried into the museum through the house's front door, and portraits had to be placed in storage whenever the Frick hosted a visiting show. The concerts at the museum sometimes sold out as well.

In 2014, the museum announced plans for a six-story annex on 70th Street designed by Davis Brody Bond. Russell Page's garden on 70th Street would have been demolished to make way for the annex; this prompted opposition from residents and preservationists,{{cite web |last=Goodman |first=Wendy |date=March 12, 2015 |title=One Very Contentious Garden |url=https://nymag.com/homedesign/features/frick-garden-expansion/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=New York |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://nymag.com/homedesign/features/frick-garden-expansion/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=November 9, 2014 |title=Frick's Plan for Expansion Faces Fight Over Loss of Garden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/arts/fricks-plan-for-expansion-faces-fight-over-loss-of-garden.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012129/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/arts/fricks-plan-for-expansion-faces-fight-over-loss-of-garden.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} and the Frick announced in June 2015 that it would draw up new designs.{{Cite news |last=Pitz |first=Marylynne |date=June 6, 2015 |title=Frick Museum in N.Y. Drops Plans for Garden Area |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |id={{ProQuest|1686201001}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Frick Museum Abandons Contested Renovation Plan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/nyregion/frick-museum-abandons-contested-renovation-plan.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104034921/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/nyregion/frick-museum-abandons-contested-renovation-plan.html |archive-date=January 4, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jennifer |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Frick Collection to Redo Expansion Plan |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/frick-collection-to-redo-expansion-plan-1433460740 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214205/https://www.wsj.com/articles/frick-collection-to-redo-expansion-plan-1433460740 |url-status=live}} To attract younger visitors, the museum began hosting free events in the mid-2010s,{{Cite news |last=Passy |first=Charles |date=August 25, 2017 |title=NYC Museums Offering Free Events to Draw Visitors |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-museums-offering-free-events-to-draw-visitors-1503583200 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=January 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103055324/https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-museums-offering-free-events-to-draw-visitors-1503583200 |url-status=live}} such as First Fridays. The Frick hired Annabelle Selldorf to design a revised expansion plan for the museum, which was announced in April 2018;{{cite web |last=Stamp |first=Elizabeth |date=April 6, 2018 |title=The Frick Museum Selects Selldorf Architects for Multimillion-Dollar Renovation |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-museum-selects-selldorf-architects-multimillion-renovation |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest |postscript=none |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-museum-selects-selldorf-architects-multimillion-renovation |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=April 4, 2018 |title=Frick Collection, With Fourth Expansion Plan, Crosses Its Fingers Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-selldorf.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-selldorf.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}{{cite web |last=Davidson |first=Justin |date=April 13, 2018 |title=This Time, a Much More Promising Attempt to Fix the Frick |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/this-time-a-much-more-promising-attempt-to-fix-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/this-time-a-much-more-promising-attempt-to-fix-the-frick.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Intelligencer}} the LPC approved Selldorf's plans that June.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 26, 2018 |title=Frick's Expansion Is Approved by Landmarks Preservation Board |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-approved.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-approved.html |url-status=live}} The Frick then sought to relocate to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum temporarily, but the Guggenheim was available for only four months.{{Cite web |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=February 25, 2021 |title=The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/design/frick-madison-moves-breuer-reopen.html |access-date=July 31, 2023 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720135457/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/design/frick-madison-moves-breuer-reopen.html |url-status=live}} By September 2018, the Frick was negotiating to take over the Whitney Museum's space at 945 Madison Avenue;{{cite web |last=Gibson |first=Eleanor |date=September 28, 2018 |title=The Met to give Breuer building to Frick Collection during renovation |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/28/the-met-breuer-building-frick-collection-renovation-new-york-museums/ |access-date=February 12, 2024 |website=Dezeen |postscript=none |archive-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001122740/https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/28/the-met-breuer-building-frick-collection-renovation-new-york-museums/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 21, 2018 |title=The Frick Likely to Take Over the Met Breuer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/met-breuer-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101080550/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/met-breuer-frick-collection.html |url-status=live}} the Frick finalized a two-year lease for that building in 2020.{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 30, 2020 |title=Frick Announces Plans for Its Two-Year Stay in Breuer Building |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/frick-madison-breuer-building.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/frick-madison-breuer-building.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}

File:6 16 2021 Frick old Whitney building 945 Madison Avenue NYC.jpg between 2021 and 2024.]]

The Frick closed in mid-March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City;{{Cite news |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin |last2=Cooper |first2=Michael |date=March 12, 2020 |title=New York's Major Cultural Institutions Close in Response to Coronavirus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/design/met-museum-opera-carnegie-hall-close-coronavirus.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211142003/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/design/met-museum-opera-carnegie-hall-close-coronavirus.html |url-status=live}} the opening of the temporary location was delayed due to the pandemic.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=February 9, 2021 |title=Frick Collection to Open as Frick Madison in March (With Coffee) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/arts/design/frick-breuer-move-opening.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608151315/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/arts/design/frick-breuer-move-opening.html |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}{{cite web |last=Kenney |first=Nancy |date=July 20, 2020 |title=New York's Frick Collection will open at Madison Avenue location in early 2021 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/20/new-yorks-frick-collection-will-open-at-madison-avenue-location-in-early-2021 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/20/new-yorks-frick-collection-will-open-at-madison-avenue-location-in-early-2021 |url-status=live}} The museum's collection was moved to 945 Madison Avenue, which reopened as the Frick Madison in March 2021.{{cite magazine |date=March 12, 2021 |title=The Frick Collection's New Home |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-frick-collections-new-home |access-date=February 4, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203233717/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-frick-collections-new-home |url-status=live}} The Frick Madison housed the museum's old masters collection, including 104 paintings, along with sculptures, vases, and clocks. Most of the 1,500-piece collection of artwork was placed in storage at 945 Madison Avenue,{{Cite web |last=Raskin |first=Laura |date=March 4, 2021 |title=Frick Madison Brings a New Look to the Breuer |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15027-frick-brings-a-new-look-to-the-breuer |access-date=April 15, 2023 |work=Architectural Record |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207014849/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/evercookie/save?name=esessionid |url-status=live}} and about 300 works were placed on display.{{cite web |last=Tarmy |first=James |date=March 4, 2021 |title=Touring the Frick Madison, New York's Newest Cultural Landmark |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/tour-the-frick-collection-s-new-madison-avenue-museum-location-in-nyc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926111736/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/tour-the-frick-collection-s-new-madison-avenue-museum-location-in-nyc |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=Bloomberg.com}} At the Frick Madison, the artwork was exhibited against stark dark gray walls, in contrast to the Frick House's ornate decoration; the paintings were also grouped according to their age and region of origin.{{cite web |last=Whittle |first=Andrea |date=February 11, 2021 |title=Frick Madison — Museum Review |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/frick-madison |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180928/https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/frick-madison |url-status=live}}{{cite web |date=January 1, 1970 |title=Frick Collection Reviews |url=https://travel.usnews.com/New_York_NY/Things_To_Do/Frick_Collection_62875/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209172600/https://travel.usnews.com/New_York_NY/Things_To_Do/Frick_Collection_62875/ |archive-date=February 9, 2024 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=U.S. News Travel}}{{Cbignore}}{{Cite news |date=March 10, 2021 |last=Wilkin |first=Karen |title=The Frick Collection: Relocated, Reshuffled and Revitalized |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/relocated-reshuffled-and-revitalized-11615407326 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607234042/https://www.wsj.com/articles/relocated-reshuffled-and-revitalized-11615407326 |url-status=live}} The Frick Madison also included a café.{{cite web | last=Senzamici | first=Peter | title=Cold-Brew Sisters Open Up Cafe Inside UES Museum | website=Upper East Side, NY Patch | date=January 27, 2023 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/cold-brew-sisters-open-cafe-inside-ues-museum | access-date=April 10, 2024}}

The museum had raised $242 million for its capital campaign by the end of 2023. Wardropper announced in January 2024 that he would resign the following year, after the Frick House's renovation was complete.{{cite web |last=Goukassian |first=Elena |date=January 8, 2024 |title=Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/08/frick-collection-ian-wardropper-director-to-retire-in-2025 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/08/frick-collection-ian-wardropper-director-to-retire-in-2025 |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=January 3, 2024 |title=Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |url-status=live}} The Frick Madison closed on March 3, 2024.{{cite web |last=Sutton |first=Benjamin |title=Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |date=April 21, 2023 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/21/frick-collection-leaving-breuer-building-2024-mansion-renovation |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103202536/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/21/frick-collection-leaving-breuer-building-2024-mansion-renovation |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Senzamici |first=Peter |title=Frick Announces Move From Madison Back To Reno'd Mansion |website=Upper East Side, NY Patch |date=April 29, 2023 |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-announces-move-madison-back-renod-mansion |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129142958/https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-announces-move-madison-back-renod-mansion |url-status=live}} The Henry Clay Frick House and Frick Art Research Library were originally expected to reopen in late 2024,{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Roger |title=The Frick Collection will soon be going home |website=Spectrum News NY1 |date=February 26, 2024 |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/human-interest/2024/02/25/the-frick-collection-will-soon-be-going-home |access-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303173403/https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/human-interest/2024/02/25/the-frick-collection-will-soon-be-going-home |url-status=live }} but this was pushed back.{{cite web | last=Rahmanan | first=Anna | title=The Frick Collection just announced it will officially reopen in April | website=Time Out New York | date=January 28, 2025 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-frick-collection-is-finally-reopening-in-2025-103124 | access-date=February 1, 2025 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web | last=Levingston | first=Miranda | title=The Frick Gets A Much-Anticipated Opening Date After $330M Makeover | website=Upper East Side, NY Patch | date=January 31, 2025 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-gets-much-anticipated-opening-date-after-330m-makeover | access-date=February 1, 2025}}{{cite web |last=Higgins |first=Charlotte |date=March 25, 2025 |title='No more velvet rope': how New York's beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/25/new-yorks-beloved-frick-museum-old-masters-gilded-age |access-date=March 25, 2025 |work=The Guardian}} Some existing exhibition spaces were rearranged as well,{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2025-03-20 |title=A Guided Tour: Inside the Splendor of the New Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/19/arts/design/frick-museum-reopening-nyc.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Gibson |first=Eric |title=At the Frick, Close Encounters With a Reconceived Collection |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/at-the-frick-close-encounters-with-a-reconceived-collection-5d9b9650 |access-date=2025-04-10 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|3188104144}}}} and a restaurant and auditorium were added. In September 2024, the Frick hired Axel Rüger, the head of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to serve as the museum's director beginning in 2025.{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 21, 2024 |title=The Frick Looks to London for Its Next Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/frick-collection-director-axel-ruger-royal-academy.html |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=The New York Times |page=C3 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Bea |date=September 20, 2024 |title=Frick Collection appoints Axel Rüger as next director |url=https://blooloop.com/museum/news/frick-collection-axel-ruger-new-director/ |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=Blooloop |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Gareth |date=September 20, 2024 |title=Axel Rüger leaves London's Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/20/axel-ruger-leaves-londons-royal-academy-for-the-frick-collection |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events}} The Frick Collection reopened on April 17, 2025,{{cite web | last=Kleinbub | first=Christian K. | title=The New Frick is the Best of the Old School | website=ARTnews.com | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/new-frick-collection-elitist-pleasure-1234738874/ | access-date=April 17, 2025}}{{cite web | title=Frick Collection reopens after renovation | website=CBS New York | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/frick-collection-reopens-after-renovation/ | access-date=April 17, 2025|postscript=none}}; {{cite web | last=Jack | first=Dominique | title=The Frick Collection reopens to the public in NYC | website=PIX11 | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://pix11.com/things-to-do/the-frick-collection-reopens-to-the-public-in-nyc/ | access-date=April 17, 2025}} and its first-ever restaurant, Westmoreland, opened that June.{{Cite web|last=Chaudhury|first=Nadia|date=2025-06-04|title=The Frick Museum Is Opening its Very First Restaurant in 89 Years|url=https://ny.eater.com/2025/6/4/24442664/the-frick-museum-restaurant-westmoreland-opening-nyc|access-date=2025-06-08|website=Eater NY|language=en|postscript=none}}; {{Cite web|last=Ryan|first=Lidia|date=2025-06-05|title=The Frick Collection opens its first cafe|url=https://www.6sqft.com/the-frick-collection-opens-its-first-cafe/|access-date=2025-06-08|work=6sqft|language=en-US|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news|last=Ratliff|first=Laura|title=The Frick just opened a stunning café on Fifth Avenue|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-can-now-feast-among-the-fricks-masterpieces-at-the-museums-new-restaurant-060525|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250605200937/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-can-now-feast-among-the-fricks-masterpieces-at-the-museums-new-restaurant-060525|archive-date=2025-06-05|access-date=2025-06-08|work=Time Out New York|language=en-US}}

{{for|a more detailed list of works in the collection|List of artworks in the Frick Collection}}

The Frick has a collection of old master paintings and furniture housed in 19 galleries of varying size within the former residence.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=September 7, 1998 |title=Director Tries Gentle Changes For the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/arts/director-tries-gentle-changes-for-the-frick.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140124105352/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/07/arts/director-tries-gentle-changes-for-the-frick.html |url-status=live}} Frick ultimately acquired a variety of European paintings,{{Cite magazine |date=Jan 1920 |title=The Frick Collection of Art Becomes the Public's Property |magazine=Current Opinion |page=100 |volume=LXVIII |issue=1 |id={{ProQuest|124776538}}}} Renaissance bronzes, French clocks,{{Cite news |date=November 5, 1982 |title=A French lesson |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-french-lesson/140121802/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=379 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202224543/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-french-lesson/140121802/ |url-status=live}} and a set of porcelains. Toward the end of Frick's life, he focused on porcelains, sculptures, and furniture.{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|pages=81–82}} Although Frick made over a thousand acquisitions over his lifetime, he resold most of the things he bought.{{Cite news |first=Norman |last=Nadel |date=June 20, 1970 |title=Frick Art 'Lives' in House |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-frick-art-lives-i/141924432/ |access-date=February 23, 2024 |work=The Pittsburgh Press |pages=8 |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223182435/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-frick-art-lives-i/141924432/ |url-status=live }} The original collection contained 635 pieces of art or decorations when Frick died. When the museum opened, it displayed 136 or about 200 paintings in addition to porcelains, enamels, and bronzes. There were also 80 sculptures on display.

Helen Clay Frick and the board of trustees expanded the collection after his death; in 2006, the New York Times estimated that about 30 percent of the collection had been acquired after Frick died. Nonetheless, until 1948, the museum accepted donations of art only from Frick family members. The museum can lend works acquired after Frick's death, but not works that he owned in his lifetime;{{cite news |last=Boehm |first=Mike |date=December 18, 2007 |title=Sharing its treasures; The Norton Simon Museum is making unprecedented loans to the National Gallery and New York's Frick Collection |work=Los Angeles Times |page=E3 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|422180386}}}}{{cite news |last=Esplund |first=Lance |date=April 22, 2010 |title=Art: Fresh Faces in the Family |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=D7 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|193313858}}}} this restriction has prevented works from appearing in other museums' exhibitions.{{cite news |last=Andreae |first=Christopher |date=January 22, 1992 |title=A clearer picture of Rembrandt Scholars weed out the pretenders to shed more light on the artist |work=Chicago Tribune |page=1 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|283399348}}}} The Frick is also prohibited from selling items in its collection and seldom acquires new works. Some of the works are normally not visible to the public but can be displayed as necessary.{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=August 31, 1990 |title=A Critic's Eye: Choosing Favorites In Museum Collections |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/31/arts/a-critic-s-eye-choosing-favorites-in-museum-collections.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204023321/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/08/31/arts/a-critic-s-eye-choosing-favorites-in-museum-collections.html |url-status=live}} The Frick has sometimes borrowed paintings for long periods, including a portrait of Cosimo de' Medici that was displayed in the museum from 1970 to 1989.{{cite news |last=Muchnic |first=Suzanne |date=April 17, 1989 |title='New Money' Squeezes Out Museum Buys |work=Los Angeles Times |page=1 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|280778087}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=March 15, 1989 |title=Medici Portrait Removed From Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/15/arts/medici-portrait-removed-from-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231322/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/15/arts/medici-portrait-removed-from-frick.html |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Purchases of new art were funded by the museum's endowment until 2016, when the museum's trustees established an acquisitions fund.{{cite press release |title=Frick Collection Announces Launch of Acquisitions Fund |website=The Frick Collection |date=October 4, 2016 |url=https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/pressreleaseacquisitionsfundFINAL.pdf |access-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-date=May 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511071655/http://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/pdf/press/pressreleaseacquisitionsfundFINAL.pdf |url-status=live}}

{{As of|2025}}, the museum has 1,800 pieces in its collection, including both paintings and other objects.{{Cite news |last=Esterow |first=Milton |date=2025-04-24 |title=He Built the Frick Collection With Passion, Patience and Bargaining |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/arts/design/frick-museum-collection.html |access-date=2025-04-27 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Prior to the museum's 2020s renovation, it normally displayed 470 objects, which were exhibited in 15 galleries.{{cite web |last=James Watkinson |first=Katie |date=February 10, 2021 |title=The Frick Collection – Museum Review |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/the-frick-collection-new-york |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/the-frick-collection-new-york |url-status=live}} An additional 10 galleries were built during the 2020s. Among the objects displayed in the expanded galleries are clocks and watches, in addition to portrait medals.

Frick's collection initially consisted of salon pieces and works by Barbizon School artists, and he bought 90 paintings from Charles Carstairs between 1895 and 1900 alone. He had begun to acquire other types of paintings by the end of the 19th century, and his acquisitions during the 1900s were increasingly composed of Old Master artworks.{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|page=15}} By the early 1910s, his collection consisted largely of English and Dutch paintings, with scattered French and Spanish paintings; a magazine article from that time described him as having relatively little interest in Italian Renaissance work.{{Cite magazine |date=April 13, 1912 |title=The Great Pictures of the Frick Collection |magazine=Town & Country |pages=35, 37 |volume=67 |issue=5 |id={{ProQuest|2092495935}}}} The paintings ranged from the 14th to 19th centuries,{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=January 9, 1987 |title=An Art Connoisseur's Guide to the Frick's Serene Pleasures |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/an-art-connoisseur-s-guide-to-the-frick-s-serene-pleasures.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010528/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/an-art-connoisseur-s-guide-to-the-frick-s-serene-pleasures.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and many of the paintings depicted women. There were some chronological gaps in the original collection: for example, there were no 17th-century French paintings when the museum opened, even as the museum had both older and newer French paintings.{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Amei |date=June 4, 1982 |title=Art Review/Doubtless French glory |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-art-reviewdoub/140122233/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202223040/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-art-reviewdoub/140122233/ |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=171}} Aside from one painting by Giovanni Bellini, Frick did not buy religious works or nudes.

When Frick died, he was variously cited as having collected 103, 137,{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Acquiring the Collection |url=https://www.frick.org/about/history/acquiring-collection |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205190139/https://www.frick.org/about/history/acquiring-collection |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection}} "about 140", or 250 paintings. Some of the original paintings in Frick's personal collection were discovered to be forgeries after his death,{{cite news |last=Philpott |first=A. J. |date=July 28, 1946 |title=Real Artists, Honest Deal Suffer Most From Frauds |work=  Daily Boston Globe |page=C3 |id={{ProQuest|839371353}}}} while other paintings were found to be misattributed.{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=December 7, 1986 |title=Masterpieces Rise and Fall on a Tide of New Expertise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/07/arts/masterpieces-rise-and-fall-on-a-tide-of-new-expertise.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231310/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/07/arts/masterpieces-rise-and-fall-on-a-tide-of-new-expertise.html |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Artists with works in the museum's collection have included:{{div col|colwidth=20em}}

• Giovanni Bellini{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=7}}{{cite news |last=Smee |first=Sebastian |title=The drama is in the details |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 13, 2021 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/entertainment/giovanni-bellini-saint-francis-desert/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |postscript=none |archive-date=August 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801233256/https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/entertainment/giovanni-bellini-saint-francis-desert/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=June 9, 2011 |title=Alone in the Wilderness and the Spotlight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/bellinis-st-francis-in-the-desert-at-the-frick.html |access-date=January 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131025150/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/bellinis-st-francis-in-the-desert-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}
• François Boucher{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=10–13, 18}}
• Agnolo Bronzino{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=19}}
• Cimabue{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=26}}
• John Constable{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=28, 30}}
• Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=31–35}}
• Aelbert Cuyp{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=37–39}}
• Jacques-Louis David{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=43}}
• Gerard David{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=42}}
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=51–58}}
• El Greco
• Gentile da Fabriano{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=68–69}}
• Thomas Gainsborough{{Cite news |last=Cary |first=Elisabeth Luther |date=October 18, 1931 |title=A Place for Pilgrimage; The Famous Henry Clay Frick Collection Is Composed of Masterpieces by Masters |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/18/archives/a-place-for-pilgrimage-the-famous-henry-clay-frick-collection-is.html |access-date=January 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131020121/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/18/archives/a-place-for-pilgrimage-the-famous-henry-clay-frick-collection-is.html |url-status=live}}{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=61–67}}
• Francisco Goya{{cite web |date=October 6, 1931 |title=World-famed Art in Frick's Bequest; $50,000,000 Collection Turned Over to Public Contains Long List of Masterpieces |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/06/archives/worldfamed-art-in-fricks-bequest-50000000-collection-turned-over-to.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221003/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/06/archives/worldfamed-art-in-fricks-bequest-50000000-collection-turned-over-to.html |url-status=live}}
• Frans Hals{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=80–83}}
• Meindert Hobbema{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=84–85}}
• William Hogarth{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=86}}
• Hans Holbein the Younger{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=87–88}}
• John Hoppner{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=89–90}}
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=91}}
• Thomas Lawrence{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=94–95}}
• Jean-François Millet{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=103}}
• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo{{harvnb|ps=.|The Frick Collection|2016|p=105}}
• Jean-Marc Nattier{{harvnb|ps=.|The Frick Collection|2016|pp=106–107}}
• Henry Raeburn{{harvnb|ps=.|The Frick Collection|2016|pp=115–116}}
• Rembrandt{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|150854503}} |title=Rembrandts Supreme In Frick Galleries: Visitor Asks For Sunday Afternoon Alone To View New York Collection Left By Steel Master For Eager Throng Of Public. |first=Ralph E. |last=Renaud |date=January 2, 1936 |page=B7 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}{{harvnb|ps=.|The Frick Collection |2016|pp=117–120}}
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=121}}
• Joshua Reynolds{{harvnb|ps=.|The Frick Collection |2016|pp=122–123}}
• George Romney{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=125–129}}
• Titian{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=140–141}}
• J. M. W. Turner{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=143–147}}
• Johannes Vermeer{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=158–160}}
• Paolo Veronese{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=161–162}}
• Diego Velázquez
• Anthony Van Dyck
• Jan van Eyck{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=49}}
• Jacob van Ruisdael{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=132–133}}
• James McNeill Whistler{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|pp=164–169}}

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Several artists, including Holbein, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Turner, Gainsborough, Van Dyck, Fragonard, and Boucher, painted multiple pieces that are in the collection. Included in the modern collection are Fragonard's The Progress of Love,{{cite magazine |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=October 21, 2016 |title=The Rococo Genius of Jean-Honoré Fragonard |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-rococo-genius-of-jean-honore-fragonard |access-date=January 29, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-rococo-genius-of-jean-honore-fragonard |url-status=live}} three Vermeer paintings including Mistress and Maid, two van Ruisdael paintings including Quay at Amsterdam,{{cite web |title=Jacob van Ruisdael |url=http://collections.frick.org/view/people/asitem/items@:159?t:state:flow=bc0a6c04-cae8-4802-a5e9-0b91dad49af9 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161007032202/http://collections.frick.org/view/people/asitem/items@:159?t:state:flow=bc0a6c04-cae8-4802-a5e9-0b91dad49af9 |archive-date=October 7, 2016 |access-date=March 13, 2016 |publisher=Frick Collection}} El Greco's Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple, Titian's Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap,{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=140}}{{cite news |last=Wolff |first=Theodore F. |date=September 13, 1983 |title=Where masterworks of art find a gracious New York home |work=The Christian Science Monitor |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|1037940320}}}} one of Rembrandt's self-portraits,{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=February 18, 2011 |title=Pride of Place, Brighter Than Ever |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18rembrandt.html |access-date=February 7, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207012357/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18rembrandt.html |url-status=live}} and della Francesca's St. John the Evangelist.{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=February 14, 2013 |title=At the Altar of Renaissance Tuscany |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/piero-della-francesca-in-america-at-the-frick.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/piero-della-francesca-in-america-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}

Some of the earliest works in Frick's collection were portraits of his family, created for his Pittsburgh residence. At the beginning of the 20th century, Frick bought works such as Rembrandt's Portrait of a Young Artist{{harvnb|Feigenbaum|2024|ps=.|page=335}} (possibly the first Old Master painting in the collection{{harvnb|Saltzman|2008|ps=.|page=162}}), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Ville d'Avray, Constant Troyon's A Pasture in Normandy, and Vermeer's Girl Interrupted at Her Music. From 1905 to 1915, Frick also acquired paintings such as Hals's Portrait of a Woman,{{Cite news |date=April 17, 1910 |title=Frick Buys Hals's Portrait of Woman; Pittsburg Steel Man Purchases Famous Work Sold at Yerkes Sale for $137,000. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1910/04/17/archives/frick-buys-halss-portrait-of-woman-pittsburg-steel-man-purchases.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304194531/https://www.nytimes.com/1910/04/17/archives/frick-buys-halss-portrait-of-woman-pittsburg-steel-man-purchases.html |url-status=live }}; {{Cite news |date=April 18, 1910 |title=H. C. Frick Buys Hals "Portrait of a Woman.": Said to Have Paid Over $140,000 for Famous Painting |work=The Hartford Courant |page=13 |issn=1047-4153 |id={{ProQuest|555708130}}}} Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga,{{Cite news |date=March 1, 1911 |title=Frick's Velasquez a Wonderful Work; Portrait of King Philip IV. One of the Most Important Pictures in Existence. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/03/01/archives/fricks-velasquez-a-wonderful-work-portrait-of-king-philip-iv-one-of.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304194539/https://www.nytimes.com/1911/03/01/archives/fricks-velasquez-a-wonderful-work-portrait-of-king-philip-iv-one-of.html |url-status=live }} Rembrandt's A Dutch Merchant,{{cite news |date=May 4, 1912 |title=Frick Buys a Rembrandt |work=New-York Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574945519}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Times |first=Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York |date=May 4, 1912 |title=FRICK BUYS A REMBRANDT.; He Pays $250,000 for a Picture, Long Owned by the Fevershams. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/05/04/archives/frick-buys-a-rembrandt-he-pays-250000-for-a-picture-long-owned-by.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304194532/https://www.nytimes.com/1912/05/04/archives/frick-buys-a-rembrandt-he-pays-250000-for-a-picture-long-owned-by.html |url-status=live }} and Rembrandt's The Polish Rider.{{cite news |date=November 1, 1913 |title=Mr. Frick's Rembrandt Praised |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=35 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|508945715}}}}

After Frick had finished his own mansion, he brought over several paintings of his firstborn daughter Martha, who had died in her childhood. He also obtained 14 Fragonard panels from the collection of J. P. Morgan{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=70}}{{Cite news |date=February 25, 1915 |title=H.C. Frick Bought Fragonard Room; Panels from Morgan Collection in Metropolitan Museum for His Fifth Avenue Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/02/25/archives/hc-frick-bought-fragonard-room-panels-from-morgan-collection-in.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240217011237/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/02/25/archives/hc-frick-bought-fragonard-room-panels-from-morgan-collection-in.html |archive-date=February 17, 2024 |access-date=February 17, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=February 25, 1915 |title=H. C. Frick Buys Fragonard Panels: Gets Morgan Paintings at Price Said to Be Close to $1,500,000 |work=New-York Tribune |page=9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575357790}}}} and moved the panels to his house's drawing room.{{Cite news |date=March 16, 1915 |title=Fragonards Moved to New Frick Home; Paintings to be Set in Drawing Room Designed for Them by Sir Charles Allom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/03/16/archives/fragonards-moved-to-new-frick-home-paintings-to-be-set-in-drawing.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218022853/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/03/16/archives/fragonards-moved-to-new-frick-home-paintings-to-be-set-in-drawing.html |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=March 16, 1915 |title=Fragonard Panels Now in Frick Home: Paintings Sold by J. P. Morgan Removed From Museum of Art |work=New-York Tribune |page=7 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575394249}}}}{{Cite news |last=Philpott |first=A J |date=May 30, 1915 |title=New York's Real Art Treasures: Boston Pilgrims See Many of Them. Wonderful Paintings in Mr Frick's New House. Society of Printers Shown Many Courtesies |work=Boston Daily Globe |page=25 |id={{ProQuest|502938057}}}} At the time of the house's completion, he owned paintings by such artists as El Greco, Goya, Hals, Rembrandt, Romney, Titian, Anthony van Dyck, and Velázquez.{{Cite news |date=May 13, 1917 |title=Fifth Avenue Homes Which Were Opened to Balfour and Joffre; To Entertain the Visitors, New York Provided Best It Had to Offer, the Astor and Frick Houses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/05/13/archives/fifth-avenue-homes-which-were-opened-to-balfour-and-joffre-to.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219013308/https://www.nytimes.com/1917/05/13/archives/fifth-avenue-homes-which-were-opened-to-balfour-and-joffre-to.html |archive-date=February 19, 2024 |access-date=February 19, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} In the late 1910s, Frick acquired additional pieces from outside the Morgan collection, such as Hans Holbein's portrait of Thomas Cromwell,{{cite news |date=May 4, 1915 |title=$235,000 Holbein Bought by Frick: Box Which Aroused Comment on the Philadelphia Contained Famous Painting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/04/archives/235000-holbein-bought-by-frick-box-which-aroused-comment-on-the.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218190628/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/05/04/archives/235000-holbein-bought-by-frick-box-which-aroused-comment-on-the.html |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=7 |id={{ProQuest|97726552}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=May 4, 1915 |title=$235,000 Painting Frick's, is Belief: Mysterious Canvas Brought From Liverpool Said to Be Holbein's "Cromwell." |work=New-York Tribune |page=9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575425037}}}} Rubens's Portrait of the Marquis Ambrose de Spinola,{{cite news |date=October 21, 1916 |title=Henry C. Frick Buys a Rubens: "Portrait of Spinola" Makes 104th Painting He Has Bought |work=New-York Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575628541}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=October 21, 1916 |title=Frick Adds a Rubens to His Art Collection; Price Paid for Portrait of Marquis de Spinola, a Spanish General, Said to be Very High. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/21/archives/frick-adds-a-rubens-to-his-art-collection-price-paid-for-portrait.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304175801/https://www.nytimes.com/1916/10/21/archives/frick-adds-a-rubens-to-his-art-collection-price-paid-for-portrait.html |url-status=live }} Rembrandt's An Old Woman Reflecting Over the Lecture,{{cite news |date=October 16, 1916 |title=Frick Adds $250,000 Prize to His Collection of Art: Steel Magnate Buys Rembrandt Painted in 1649—estimated He Has Spent $2,300,000 in Year |work=Chicago Tribune |page=3 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|174110598}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=October 16, 1916 |title=Frick's $250,000 Gets Rembrandt: Buys "Old Woman Reflecting Over Lecture" for Country Gallery |work=New-York Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575628117}}}} and Gainsborough's Mall between 1915 and 1916 alone.{{Cite news |date=March 15, 1916 |title=Frick Buys 'Mall' by Gainsborough; Famous Painting Soon to be Hung Among Other Art Treasures in Collector's Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1916/03/15/archives/frick-buys-mall-by-gainsborough-famous-painting-soon-to-be-hung.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218225312/https://www.nytimes.com/1916/03/15/archives/frick-buys-mall-by-gainsborough-famous-painting-soon-to-be-hung.html |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} He also bought four Boucher panels,{{Cite news |date=January 27, 1917 |title=Frick Buys $200,000 Panels |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-buys-200000-pane/141464831/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219000152/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-buys-200000-pane/141464831/ |archive-date=February 19, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=1 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=January 27, 1917 |title=Frick Buys Four Bouchers; Reported to Have Paid $200,000 for Paintings Representing Seasons. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1917/01/27/archives/frick-buys-four-bouchers-reported-to-have-paid-200000-for-paintings.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218225312/https://www.nytimes.com/1917/01/27/archives/frick-buys-four-bouchers-reported-to-have-paid-200000-for-paintings.html |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} although he turned down the opportunity to buy additional panels.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=83}} From 1917 through 1919, Frick obtained several pieces of Boucher tapestry furniture,{{cite news |date=June 17, 1917 |title=Rare Art Objects for Frick: Boucher Tapestry Furniture and Portrait Busts Cost $500,000. |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=7 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|145565141}}}} Van Dyck's Countess of Clanbrazil,{{cite news |date=February 20, 1917 |title=$250,000 Van Dyck Portrait Added to Frick Collection: "Countess of Clanbrazil" Now Hangs in the Capitalist's Residence |work=New-York Tribune |page=11 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|575677103}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=February 20, 1917 |title=Frick Buys Famous Van Dyck |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-frick-buys-famous-van-dyck/141465875/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219000155/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sun-frick-buys-famous-van-dyck/141465875/ |archive-date=February 19, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024 |work=The Sun |pages=7}} Hals's Portrait of a Man,{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=91}} Vermeer's Mistress and Maid,{{cite news |date=September 22, 1919 |title=Vermeer, a Great Little Master: the Metropolitan Vermeers Clarity Itself |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=14 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510274820}} }} and a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1919 |title=Frick Pays $75,000 for a Washington; Manufacturer Buys Bust Portrait by Gilbert Stuart for Fifth Avenue Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/03/22/archives/frick-pays-75000-for-a-washington-manufacturer-buys-bust-portrait.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219020217/https://www.nytimes.com/1919/03/22/archives/frick-pays-75000-for-a-washington-manufacturer-buys-bust-portrait.html |archive-date=February 19, 2024 |access-date=February 19, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}

In the half-century after Frick died, thirty objects were added to the original collection. After Frick's death but before the opening of the current museum, the Frick estate's trustees bought the Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,{{cite news |date=April 23, 1927 |title=Frick Collection Acquires Noted Ingres Painting: Estate Buys Portrait of Mme. d'Haussonville, One of Most Renowned Works of Eminent French Artist Lately Brought to U. S. Canvas Hung in Fifth Ave. Mansion Which Ultimately Will Be a City Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=7 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1131393399}} |postscript=none}}; {{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=91}} as well as a painting by Duccio and the Coronation of the Virgin by Paolo Veneziano. The Giuseppe Bastiani painting Adoration of Magi was acquired in 1935. Works by Cimabue, Duccio, della Francesca, and Filippo Lippi entered the museum's collection for the first time between 1924 and 1950.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=111}} Shortly after the museum opened, it acquired items such as a Renaissance-era panel by della Francesca,{{cite news |date=April 8, 1936 |title=Frick Museum Acquires Rare Italian Painting: Piero della Francesca Panel, 'A Saint,' Called Greatest Find of 20th Century Bears an Austrian Crest Arrival Announced Last Month by Knoedler Co. A Famous Panel Acquired by the Frick Collection |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1330799304}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=April 8, 1936 |title=Frick Museum Gets Rare Piero Panel; Early Italian Masterpiece Is First Acquisition Since Gallery Was Opened |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/08/archives/frick-museum-gets-rare-piero-panel-early-italian-masterpiece-is.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201034418/https://www.nytimes.com/1936/04/08/archives/frick-museum-gets-rare-piero-panel-early-italian-masterpiece-is.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} a portrait that Boucher painted of his wife,{{cite news |date=October 24, 1937 |title=Boucher Portrait Acquired by the Frick Collection |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=18 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1222269416}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=October 24, 1937 |title=Metropolitan Gets Collection of Rugs; Current Design Is Illustrated in Show at Museum to Open on Tuesday |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/24/archives/metropolitan-gets-collection-of-rugs-current-design-is-illustrated.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201034417/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/24/archives/metropolitan-gets-collection-of-rugs-current-design-is-illustrated.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Jacques-Louis David's painting of a French noblewoman,{{cite web |date=November 23, 1937 |title=Frick Collection Buys David Work; Portrait of Countess Daru Once Part of French Exhibit at the Royal Academy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/11/23/archives/frick-collection-buys-david-work-portrait-of-countess-daru-once.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201034421/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/11/23/archives/frick-collection-buys-david-work-portrait-of-countess-daru-once.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Monet's Vétheuil in Winter, and a Paul Cézanne landscape.{{cite web |date=March 15, 1938 |title=Cezanne Art Bought by Frick Collection; Gallery Gets Its First Post-Impressionist Work, 'Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffon' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/15/archives/cezanne-art-bought-by-frick-collection-gallery-gets-its-first.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201173905/https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/15/archives/cezanne-art-bought-by-frick-collection-gallery-gets-its-first.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=March 15, 1938 |title=Frick Collection Buys Its First Cezanne Canvas: Landscape by French Master Goes on Display Today |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=13A |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1242991501}}}} This was followed in the 1950s by three Italian Renaissance paintings,{{cite web |date=February 1, 1951 |title=Rare Art Acquired by Frick Museum; Three Paintings of the Italian Renaissance Are Added to the Collection Here |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/02/01/archives/rare-art-acquired-by-frick-museum-three-paintings-of-the-italian.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194206/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/02/01/archives/rare-art-acquired-by-frick-museum-three-paintings-of-the-italian.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} David's portrait of Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni,{{cite web |date=October 7, 1952 |title=Bruni Portrait Acquired; Frick Collection Buys Painting of Italian Violinist and Composer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/10/07/archives/bruni-portrait-acquired-frick-collection-buys-painting-of-italian.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194205/https://www.nytimes.com/1952/10/07/archives/bruni-portrait-acquired-frick-collection-buys-painting-of-italian.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and Jan van Eyck's Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor.{{cite web |last=Saarinen |first=Aline B. |date=October 24, 1954 |title=The Frick's New Masterpiece; The Van Eyck Madonna, Splendid in Color, Goes on View |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/24/archives/the-fricks-new-masterpiece-the-van-eyck-madonna-splendid-in-color.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214847/https://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/24/archives/the-fricks-new-masterpiece-the-van-eyck-madonna-splendid-in-color.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Genauer |first=Emily |date=October 24, 1954 |title=Frick Museum Showing New $750,000 Van Eyck |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=25 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1313729031}}}} The collection had only one 17th-century French work until the 1960s, when the museum obtained Claude Lorrain's painting of the Sermon on the Mount;{{cite web |last=Preston |first=Stuart |date=May 12, 1961 |title=Art: The Frick Fills Important Gap; 'Sermon on the Mount' Acquired by Museum Claude Lorraine Work Goes on View Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/05/12/archives/art-the-frick-fills-important-gap-sermon-on-the-mount-acquired-by.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214847/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/05/12/archives/art-the-frick-fills-important-gap-sermon-on-the-mount-acquired-by.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} the museum also obtained della Francesca's Crucifixion during that decade.

The Frick did not acquire anything between {{circa|1968}} and 1991, when the museum obtained its first Jean-Antoine Watteau painting, Portal of Valenciennes.{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=John |date=September 15, 1991 |title=Art View; The Great Absentee Shows Up at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/arts/art-view-the-great-absentee-shows-up-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204023322/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/15/arts/art-view-the-great-absentee-shows-up-at-the-frick.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} The museum's other acquisitions in the 1990s and 2000s included one of Corot's oil sketches,{{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=February 18, 1994 |title=Art in Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/18/arts/art-in-review-226386.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/18/arts/art-in-review-226386.html |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} two of Jean-Baptiste Greuze's portraits,{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=March 22, 1996 |title=Art Review;Made for Each Other in Paris: A Painter and an Actor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/arts/art-review-made-for-each-other-in-paris-a-painter-and-an-actor.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195815/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/22/arts/art-review-made-for-each-other-in-paris-a-painter-and-an-actor.html |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and Gabriel de Saint-Aubin's The Private Academy.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=October 2, 2008 |title=Artist in Residence, Sort of: Corin Hewitt's 'Seed Stage' at the Whitney |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03voge.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195818/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03voge.html |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} After former director Ryskamp died in 2010, he bequeathed some of his collection to the Frick.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=January 13, 2011 |title=Charles Ryskamp Bequeaths Work to Frick and Morgan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/design/14vogel.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010543/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/14/arts/design/14vogel.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} The museum's other acquisitions in the 2010s included a self-portrait by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo that had been owned by Henry Clay Frick's grandson.{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=November 27, 2014 |title=A New Home at the Frick for a Rare Murillo Work |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/design/frick-collection-acquires-murillo-self-portrait.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126002010/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/design/frick-collection-acquires-murillo-self-portrait.html |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} In 2023, the Frick obtained Giovanni Battista Moroni's painting Portrait of a Lady, the first Renaissance-era portrait of a woman in the collection.{{Cite web |last=Feldman |first=Ella |date=January 17, 2023 |title=The Frick Adds Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman to Permanent Collection |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-frick-collection-acquires-its-first-renaissance-portrait-of-a-woman-180981447/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-frick-collection-acquires-its-first-renaissance-portrait-of-a-woman-180981447/ |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Bahr |first=Sarah |date=January 6, 2023 |title=The Frick Acquires Its First Renaissance Portrait of a Woman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/arts/design/frick-first-female-renaissance-portrait.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928224457/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/arts/design/frick-first-female-renaissance-portrait.html |archive-date=September 28, 2023 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}

The modern-day museum's collection includes numerous works of sculpture and porcelain, in addition to 18th-century French furniture, Limoges enamel, and Oriental rugs. The objects in the collection include 18th-century tapestries that belonged to Louis XV and Louis XVI of France.{{cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=January 14, 2001 |title=Art/Architecture; Tapestries Tell a Tale Of Royal Ownership |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/arts/art-architecture-tapestries-tell-a-tale-of-royal-ownership.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207024320/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/arts/art-architecture-tapestries-tell-a-tale-of-royal-ownership.html |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |access-date=February 7, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}

Frick had acquired some objects from the J. P. Morgan estate specifically to complement the visual art in his collection. Some of these acquisitions included 18th-century French sculptures and furniture, a hawthorn beaker,{{Cite news |date=April 6, 1915 |title=Frick Has a Green Hawthorne Beaker; His Latest Purchase of Morgan Art Finer Than the Black Hawthorne |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/04/06/archives/frick-has-a-green-hawthorne-beaker-his-latest-purchase-of-morgan.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304175801/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/04/06/archives/frick-has-a-green-hawthorne-beaker-his-latest-purchase-of-morgan.html |url-status=live }} and Chinese porcelains.{{Cite news |date=February 26, 1915 |title=Frick to Acquire More Morgan Art; Purchaser of Fragonard Room Now Reported to Have Got the Porcelains Also |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/02/26/archives/frick-to-acquire-more-morgan-art-purchaser-of-fragonard-room-now.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218174448/https://www.nytimes.com/1915/02/26/archives/frick-to-acquire-more-morgan-art-purchaser-of-fragonard-room-now.html |url-status=live }} In one case, Frick paid $1.5 million for some of Morgan's 44 enamels and 225 bronzes.{{Cite news |date=August 10, 1919 |title=$1,500,000 Reported Paid by Frick for Morgan Art Works |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-1500000-repo/142666589/ |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |pages=7 |archive-date=March 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240304175801/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-1500000-repo/142666589/ |url-status=live }} He also acquired 40 Limoges enamels from Morgan's collection in 1919,{{cite news |date=August 10, 1919 |title=H. C. Frick Pays $1,500,000 for Art Enamels |work=Chicago Tribune |page=1 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|174548426}}}} one of the last things he would personally purchase. Outside of the Morgan collection, Frick also bought the bronzes Bust of a Jurist by Danese Cattaneo, Antonio Galli by Federico Brandani, and Duke of Alba by Jacques Jonghelinck. Although Frick had planned a sculpture gallery to his home in the late 1910s, the lack of other statuary caused him to cancel the plan.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|pages=87–88}} Duveen displayed numerous marble busts in the Frick House while Frick decided whether to buy them. Some of the furniture also came from Duveen.

A bust of Henry Clay Frick by Malvina Hoffman was gifted to the museum when it opened in 1935.{{harvnb|ps=.|Sanger|2001|page=187}} Other acquisitions of sculpture in the mid-20th century included a Diana bust by Jean-Antoine Houdon,{{cite web |date=June 13, 1939 |title=Houdon Diana Added to Frick Collection; Terra Cotta Version of Famous Statue Goes on View Today |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/13/archives/houdon-diana-added-to-frick-collection-terra-cotta-version-of.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201173905/https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/13/archives/houdon-diana-added-to-frick-collection-terra-cotta-version-of.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=June 13, 1939 |title=Houdon Diana is Acquired by Frick Museum: Terra-Cotta Statue to Go on View Today; Once Owned -by Uncle of Napoleon |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1319974712}}}} a 15th-century bronze figure of an angel, and a pair of 15th-century Italian marble busts. In the 1990s and 2000s, the Frick received Winthrop Edey's collection of timekeeping pieces,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=June 16, 2006 |title=New Treasures at the Frick: Two Sculptures (One That Ticks) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/design/16voge.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195825/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/arts/design/16voge.html |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} a 19th-century terracotta bust by Joseph Chinard,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=November 26, 2004 |title=The Frick Acquires a Chinard Bust |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/the-frick-acquires-a-chinard-bust.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195822/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/26/arts/design/the-frick-acquires-a-chinard-bust.html |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} a marble bust by Houdon; a bust by Massimiliano Soldani Benzi,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=October 27, 2006 |title=Two New Sculptures for the Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/design/two-new-sculptures-for-the-frick-collection.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195822/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/design/two-new-sculptures-for-the-frick-collection.html |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and a clock. Acquisitions since the 2010s have included 131 Meissen porcelains,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=July 28, 2011 |title=MoMa PS 1 Plans 9/11 Exhibition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/arts/design/moma-ps-1-plans-911-exhibition.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214145/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/arts/design/moma-ps-1-plans-911-exhibition.html |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} as well as 28 objects from collector Alexis Gregory (including rare clocks and enamels).{{cite news |last=Saenger |first=Peter |date=February 3, 2023 |title=A Feast of Decoration; A new bequest to New York's Frick Collection includes fanciful clocks and Limoges enamel. |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-feast-of-decoration-11675449682 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-feast-of-decoration-11675449682 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 28, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|2772012183}}}}

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|File:Giovanni Bellini St Francis in Ecstasy.jpg|Giovanni Bellini, St. Francis in Ecstasy, 1478

|File:Titian - Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap - WGA22937.jpg|Titian, Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, c. 1516

|File:Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg|Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Thomas More, 1527

|File:Cromwell,Thomas(1EEssex)01.jpg|Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Thomas Cromwell, 1532 or 1533

|File:Pieter Bruegel de Oude - De drie soldaten.jpg|Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Three Soldiers, 1568{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=20}}

|File:El Greco - San Jerónimo.jpg|El Greco, Saint Jerome, c. 1590–1600{{cite web |title=Tracing El Greco's Evolution |website=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |date=May 25, 2001 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2001/05/25/tracing-el-grecos-evolution/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005718/https://www.nydailynews.com/2001/05/25/tracing-el-grecos-evolution/ |url-status=live}}; {{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=75}}

|File:Rembrandt - De Poolse ruiter, c.1655 (Frick Collection).jpg|Rembrandt, The Polish Rider, 1655{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=118}}

|File:Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 130.jpg|Rembrandt, Self-Portrait, 1658{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=119}}

|File:Johannes Vermeer - De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje - Google Art Project.jpg|Johannes Vermeer, Officer and Laughing Girl, 1657{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=158}}

|File:Vermeer Girl Interrupted at Her Music.jpg|Johannes Vermeer, Girl Interrupted at Her Music, 1658–1661{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=160}}

|File:Vermeer Lady Maidservant Holding Letter.jpg|Johannes Vermeer, Mistress and Maid, 1667{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=159}}

|File:1755 Francois Boucher Spring anagoria.jpg|François Boucher, The Four Seasons (Spring), 1755{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=15}}

|File:1755 Francois Boucher Summer anagoria.jpg|François Boucher, The Four Seasons (Summer), 1755

|File:1755 Francois Boucher Autumn anagoria.jpg|François Boucher, The Four Seasons (Autumn), 1755{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=16}}

|File:1755 Francois Boucher Winter anagoria.jpg|François Boucher, The Four Seasons (Winter), 1755

|File:The White Horse by John Constable - Google Art Project.jpg|John Constable, The White Horse, 1819{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=28}}

|File:Joseph Mallord William Turner - The Harbor of Dieppe - Google Art Project.jpg|J. M. W. Turner, The Harbour of Dieppe, 1826{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=144}}

|File:Turner Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat, Evening.jpg|J. M. W. Turner, Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening, 1826{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=145}}

|File:Turner Mortlake Terrace Early Summer Morning 1826.jpg|J. M. W. Turner, Mortlake Terrace: Early Summer Morning, 1826{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=146}}

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|File:Angelo Bronzino 055.jpg|Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino), Portrait of Ludovico Capponi, 1551

|File:Philip IV of Spain - Velázquez 1644.jpg|Diego Velázquez, King Philip IV of Spain, 1644{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=156}}

|File:Jean Honore Fragonard Surprise.jpg|Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Secret Meeting, 1771{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=52}}

|File:The Progress of Love - Love Letters - Fragonard 1771-72.jpg|Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Progress of Love – Love Letters, 1771–1772{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=54}}

|File:La fragua.jpg|Francisco Goya, The Forge, 1817{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=72}}

|File:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Comtesse d'Haussonville - Google Art Project.jpg|Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville, 1845

|File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - La Promenade - Google Art Project.jpg|Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mother and Children (La Promenade), 1875–76

|File:James Abbot McNeill Whistler 011.jpg|James McNeill Whistler, Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of Lady Meux), 1881{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=167}}

|File:Tiepolo - Perseus and Andromeda, ca. 1730–31.jpg|Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Perseus and Andromeda, 1730–31{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=138}}

|File:Hendrik van der Burgh - Drinkers before the Fireplace - c 1660 - The Frick Collection.jpg|Hendrick van der Burgh, Drinkers before the Fireplace, 1660{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=21}}

|File:Giovanni Mocenigo - Bellini 1478-1485.jpg|Gentile Bellini, Doge Giovanni Mocenigo, 1478–1485{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=6}}

|File:Julia, Lady Peel - Lawrence 1827.jpg|Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Julia, Lady Peel, 1827{{harvnb|The Frick Collection|2016|ps=.|p=94}}

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The Frick Collection has historically hosted temporary exhibitions less frequently than similar museums. It initially focused almost exclusively on its permanent collection, with one temporary exhibit a year during the 1960s. Since 1972, the Frick has sometimes hosted small exhibitions on narrowly defined topics;{{Cite magazine |last=Weinshenker |first=Anne Betty |date=Winter 1984 |title=Clodion at The Frick Collection |magazine=Art Journal |page=383 |volume=44 |issue=4 |id={{ProQuest|1289998750}}}} in some cases, exhibitions have consisted of a single painting. By the 2010s, the museum hosted five exhibits a year on average, and exhibitions were scheduled several years in advance.{{Cite news |last=Wecker |first=Menachem |date=November 21, 2014 |title=Donatello exhibition heading to Museum of Biblical Art in New York |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/donatello-exhibition-heading-to-museum-of-biblical-art-in-new-york/2014/11/20/c0305764-6c10-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=July 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729213546/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/donatello-exhibition-heading-to-museum-of-biblical-art-in-new-york/2014/11/20/c0305764-6c10-11e4-9fb4-a622dae742a2_story.html |url-status=live}}

Temporary exhibitions in the 1970s included an exhibit in honor of the museum's late director Harry D. M. Grier,{{cite news |last=Kramer |first=Hilton |date=November 25, 1972 |title=The Frick Collection Honors a Director |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=23 |id={{ProQuest|119411371}}}} bronzes by Severo Calzetta da Ravenna,{{Cite news |date=June 30, 1978 |title=Art: What's Happening At the Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/30/archives/art-whats-happening-at-the-frick-collection.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/30/archives/art-whats-happening-at-the-frick-collection.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} and drawings by Fragonard. Topics of temporary exhibitions during the 1980s included busts by Houdon,{{cite web |last=Kramer |first=Hilton  |date=June 12, 1981 |title=Art: Eight Portrait Busts by Houdon at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/12/arts/art-eight-portrait-busts-by-houdon-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/12/arts/art-eight-portrait-busts-by-houdon-at-the-frick.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} French clocks, terracotta sculptures by Clodion, drawings by Ingres,{{Cite news |last=Brenson |first=Michael |date=May 25, 1986 |title=Gallery View; Delacroix and Ingres Continue Their Duel of Fire and Ice |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/arts/gallery-view-delacroix-and-ingres-continue-their-duel-of-fire-and-ice.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231310/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/arts/gallery-view-delacroix-and-ingres-continue-their-duel-of-fire-and-ice.html |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Henry Clay Frick's earliest acquisitions,{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=July 8, 1988 |title=Reviews/Art; The Frick Collection Shows Off a Fresh Face |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/08/arts/reviews-art-the-frick-collection-shows-off-a-fresh-face.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010528/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/08/arts/reviews-art-the-frick-collection-shows-off-a-fresh-face.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and Old Master paintings.{{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=November 17, 1989 |title=Review/Art; Old Masters on a Visit From Fort Worth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/17/arts/review-art-old-masters-on-a-visit-from-fort-worth.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010550/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/17/arts/review-art-old-masters-on-a-visit-from-fort-worth.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}

Especially in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the museum has hosted temporary exhibitions about singular artworks or artists. Among the items exhibited in the 1990s were works by French painter Nicolas Lancret,{{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=November 22, 1991 |title=Reviews/Art; Lancret's Graceful Visions of 18th-Century Life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/arts/reviews-art-lancret-s-graceful-visions-of-18th-century-life.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204023329/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/22/arts/reviews-art-lancret-s-graceful-visions-of-18th-century-life.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} watercolors from the Rijksmuseum,{{cite web |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=September 17, 1993 |title=Review/Art; Decorative Images In a Delicate Medium |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/arts/review-art-decorative-images-in-a-delicate-medium.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180925/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/arts/review-art-decorative-images-in-a-delicate-medium.html |url-status=live}} eighteenth- and nineteenth-century drawings from the Stanford Museum,{{cite web |last=Karmel |first=Pepe |date=April 14, 1995 |title=Art Review; 60 Drawings From the Stanford Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/arts/art-review-60-drawings-from-the-stanford-museum.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180927/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/14/arts/art-review-60-drawings-from-the-stanford-museum.html |url-status=live}} a single Claude Monet painting, drawings by German artists,{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=July 24, 1998 |title=Art Review; Lessons in Poetry, Science and History From the Age of Goethe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/24/arts/art-review-lessons-in-poetry-science-and-history-from-the-age-of-goethe.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212910/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/24/arts/art-review-lessons-in-poetry-science-and-history-from-the-age-of-goethe.html |url-status=live}} and drawings by French artists.{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=October 29, 1999 |title=Art Review; It Wasn't All Dainty Ladies and Their Beaux in Frills and Satin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29/arts/art-review-it-wasn-t-all-dainty-ladies-and-their-beaux-in-frills-and-satin.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204023321/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/29/arts/art-review-it-wasn-t-all-dainty-ladies-and-their-beaux-in-frills-and-satin.html |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} In 1999, several items in the permanent collection were taken out of storage specifically to complement an exhibition of Ingres's Portrait of Comtesse d'Haussonville.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=January 29, 1999 |title=Inside Art; A Mistress For the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/29/arts/inside-art-a-mistress-for-the-frick.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212911/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/29/arts/inside-art-a-mistress-for-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Kempton |first=Murray |date=January 19, 1986 |title=Museum Lures Like a Countess |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-museum-lures-like-a-countess/140318768/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=6 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205190142/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-museum-lures-like-a-countess/140318768/ |url-status=live}}

In the early 2000s, the topics of the Frick's exhibitions included drawings in the collection of the Albertina museum,{{cite news |last=Andre |first=Mila |date=April 21, 2000 |title=Frick Draws on Treasures of Vienna Collection |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2000/04/21/frick-draws-on-treasures-of-vienna-collection/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=63 |id={{ProQuest|313759590}} |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207012357/https://www.nydailynews.com/2000/04/21/frick-draws-on-treasures-of-vienna-collection/ |url-status=live}} paintings from John Hay Whitney's collection,{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=September 1, 2000 |title=Art Review; It's Your Taste, Mr. Frick, If, Um, a Bit More Daring |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/01/arts/art-review-it-s-your-taste-mr-frick-if-um-a-bit-more-daring.html |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207024320/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/01/arts/art-review-it-s-your-taste-mr-frick-if-um-a-bit-more-daring.html |url-status=live}} El Greco paintings,{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=May 25, 2001 |title=Art Review; El Greco, Richly Repeating Himself |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/arts/art-review-el-greco-richly-repeating-himself.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208174815/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/25/arts/art-review-el-greco-richly-repeating-himself.html?searchResultPosition=1 |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Budick |first=Ariella |date=June 8, 2001 |title=7 El Grecos, 2 Themes, Multiple Double Takes |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-7-el-grecos-2/140520976/ |access-date=February 8, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=143 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208174815/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-7-el-grecos-2/140520976/ |url-status=live}} antique clocks,{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=December 21, 2001 |title=Critic's Notebook; The Gift Of Art Ready To Be Opened |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/arts/critic-s-notebook-the-gift-of-art-ready-to-be-opened.html |access-date=February 7, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207012357/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/21/arts/critic-s-notebook-the-gift-of-art-ready-to-be-opened.html |url-status=live}} pieces from the Toledo Museum of Art's collection,{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |title=Art Review; At the Frick, the Next Best Thing to a Trip to Ohio |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 1, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/arts/art-review-at-the-frick-the-next-best-thing-to-a-trip-to-ohio.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208174816/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/arts/art-review-at-the-frick-the-next-best-thing-to-a-trip-to-ohio.html |url-status=live}} a set of Parmigianino paintings,{{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=January 30, 2004 |title=Art Review; Abundant Skills, Abbreviated Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/art-review-abundant-skills-abbreviated-years.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208174816/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/art-review-abundant-skills-abbreviated-years.html |url-status=live}} and three consecutive exhibits of antique bronzes.{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=March 18, 2005 |title=Treasures of a New Bronze Age, the Small Bronze Age |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/treasures-of-a-new-bronze-age-the-small-bronze-age.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195825/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/treasures-of-a-new-bronze-age-the-small-bronze-age.html |url-status=live}} Later in the decade, the temporary exhibitions included portraits by Hans Memling,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=August 5, 2005 |title=15th-Century Show Is a Coup for the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/arts/design/15thcentury-show-is-a-coup-for-the-frick.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195821/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/arts/design/15thcentury-show-is-a-coup-for-the-frick.html |url-status=live}} paintings by Paolo Veronese,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=February 3, 2006 |title=Gathering a Trove of Veronese Paintings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/arts/design/gathering-a-trove-of-veronese-paintings.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195824/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/arts/design/gathering-a-trove-of-veronese-paintings.html |url-status=live}} a show of French art,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=September 23, 2005 |title=Two Major Collections Land at Christie's |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/arts/design/two-major-collections-land-at-christies.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195823/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/arts/design/two-major-collections-land-at-christies.html |url-status=live}} the Frick's first Meissen porcelain show,{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=November 23, 2007 |title=An Art Nouveau Room Thick With Wisteria |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23voge.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} pieces from the Norton Simon Museum's collection,{{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=February 26, 2009 |title=On Loan, 16th- and 17th-century Spanish, Italian and Flemish Master Works at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/arts/design/27fric.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and a single painting by Parmigianino.{{Cite magazine |date=January 26, 2008 |title=Books And Arts: One and only; Parmigianino at the Frick |magazine=The Economist |page=95 |volume=386 |issue=8564 |id={{ProQuest|362648866}}}} The Frick hosted various exhibits in honor of its 75th anniversary in 2010,{{cite web |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=December 14, 2010 |title=1935 Pricing at the Frick for a Day: No Charge |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/1935-pricing-at-the-frick-for-a-day-no-charge/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=ArtsBeat}} including an exhibition on its own founding. Other early-2010s exhibits included works from the Dulwich Picture Gallery, works from the Courtauld Gallery,{{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=October 18, 2012 |title='Mantegna to Matisse,' at the Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/mantegna-to-matisse-at-the-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Picasso drawings,{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=October 6, 2011 |title=Lines That Kept Moving and Knew No Boundaries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/arts/design/lines-that-kept-moving-and-knew-no-boundaries.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Renoir paintings,{{cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=February 9, 2012 |title=Renoir's Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/arts/design/renoirs-full-length-paintings-at-the-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Piero della Francesca panels,{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=February 14, 2013 |title=At the Altar of Renaissance Tuscany |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/arts/design/piero-della-francesca-in-america-at-the-frick.html |access-date=February 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Stefanie |date=February 15, 2013 |title=Left at the Altar |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324196204578300462202523652 |access-date=February 10, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660}} and a historical overview of St. Francis in the Desert.{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Bellini Work Back at Frick, Yielding New Insights |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 7, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/arts/design/bellini-work-back-at-frick-yielding-new-insights.html |access-date=February 9, 2024}}

After some works from the Mauritshuis in The Hague were displayed at the Frick in 2013,{{cite web |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |title=For Fervent Fans of the Dutch Masters, 'It's a Dream Come True' |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 28, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/arts/design/for-fervent-fans-of-the-dutch-masters-its-a-dream-come-true.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Pollack |first=Maika |title='Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting From the Mauritshuis' at the Frick Collection |website=Observer |date=December 10, 2013 |url=https://observer.com/2013/12/vermeer-rembrandt-and-hals-masterpieces-of-dutch-painting-from-the-mauritshuis-the-frick-collection/ |access-date=February 9, 2024}} the Frick displayed several paintings at the Mauritshuis in 2015,{{cite web |last=Brown |first=Mark |date=February 4, 2015 |title=Frick Collection masterpieces on show at the Mauritshuis in The Hague |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/frick-collection-masterpieces-mauritshuis-the-hague |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120224728/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/04/frick-collection-masterpieces-mauritshuis-the-hague |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The Guardian |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |date=February 6, 2015 |title=Frick Collection: Mauritshuis exhibits 30 masterpieces from New York |url=https://www.thehagueonline.com/arts-entertainment/2015/02/06/frick-collection-mauritshuis-exhibits-30-masterpieces-from-new-york |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The Hague Online}} marking the first time that the Frick lent paintings to a European museum.{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=February 13, 2014 |title=A Loan Extends Museums' Global Reach |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/arts/design/a-loan-extends-museums-global-reach.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403215040/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/14/arts/design/a-loan-extends-museums-global-reach.html |archive-date=April 3, 2023 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} During the mid- and late 2010s, the subjects of the Frick's exhibits included paintings from the Scottish National Gallery's collection,{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=November 20, 2014 |title=Scottish Visit in Gowns (and Kilt) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/arts/design/masterpieces-from-scotland-visit-the-frick.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} paintings from the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo in Florence,{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Ken |date=February 19, 2015 |title=Review: Donatello in a Valedictory Show at the Museum of Biblical Art |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/arts/design/review-donatello-in-a-valedictory-show-at-the-museum-of-biblical-art.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} works by Andrea del Sarto,{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=October 22, 2015 |title=Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/arts/design/review-a-renaissance-painter-andrea-del-sarto-striving-for-perfection.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} objects by Pierre Gouthière,{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=December 22, 2016 |title=Gouthière at the Frick: Gilding the Lily (and Everything Else) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/arts/design/gouthiere-at-the-frick-gilding-the-lily-and-everything-else.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} and canvases by J. M. W. Turner.{{Cite news |last=Rosenberg |first=Karen |date=March 16, 2017 |title=That Visionary Wharf Rat, J.M.W. Turner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/arts/that-visionary-wharf-rat-jmw-turner.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} When the Frick moved to 945 Madison Avenue in the early 2020s, its exhibits included a showcase of Barkley Hendricks paintings (the museum's first exhibit of a black artist's art){{cite web |last=Elujoba |first=Yinka |date=September 28, 2023 |title=For Barkley Hendricks, Finally a Seat at the Head of the Table |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/arts/design/barkley-hendricks-frick-portraits.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240105210603/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/28/arts/design/barkley-hendricks-frick-portraits.html |archive-date=January 5, 2024 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and a pair of paintings by Giovanni Bellini and Giorgio da Castelfranco.{{cite web |last=Gopnik |first=Blake |date=November 22, 2023 |title=2 Masterpieces Reveal the Big Bang Moment of Our Art Universe |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/arts/design/renaissance-works-frick-madison.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223105439/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/arts/design/renaissance-works-frick-madison.html |archive-date=December 23, 2023 |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}

The museum hosts special events,{{cite news |last=Sozanski |first=Edward J. |date=March 10, 2003 |title=Wealth of art, but poor foundation: The Barnes fails while peers thrive |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |page=A.1 |id={{ProQuest|1898256328}}}} such as academic symposiums, concerts, and classes. The educational programs are led by Rika Burnham, who became head of the museum's education department in 2008.{{cite press release |title=Appointment of Rika Burnham as Head of Education |website=The Frick Collection |date=August 5, 2020 |url=https://www.frick.org/press/appointment-rika-burnham-head-education |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=December 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231205080026/https://www.frick.org/press/appointment-rika-burnham-head-education |url-status=live}} The Frick's educational programs include online visits for students at secondary schools and postsecondary institutions,{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Online Visits for Schools, Colleges, and Universities |url=https://www.frick.org/programs/education/online_visits_schools |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection}} as well as courses where a single piece is discussed at length.{{cite web |last=Marius |first=Marley |date=March 17, 2021 |title=Seeing a Collection Anew at the Frick Madison |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/frick-madison |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511180615/https://www.vogue.com/article/frick-madison |archive-date=May 11, 2023 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Vogue}} The Frick also has partnerships with local educational partnerships such as the Ghetto Film School.{{cite web |last=Weisblum |first=Vida |date=January 12, 2016 |title=At the Frick, Art and Movies Mingle in New Student Film Project |url=https://observer.com/2016/01/at-the-frick-art-and-movies-mingle-in-new-student-film-project/ |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=Observer |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Sheets |first=Hilarie M. |date=January 8, 2016 |title=Young Moviemakers Meet Old Masters at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/arts/design/young-moviemakers-meet-old-masters-at-the-frick.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Docents began hosting lectures in galleries in 2010, and the museum launched a mobile app in 2014, allowing visitors to bookmark artworks in the museum's collection.{{cite web |last=Miller |first=M. H. |date=August 13, 2014 |title=Frick Collection 'Engages Youth' With a Mobile App |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/frick-collection-engages-youth-with-a-mobile-app-2607/ |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=ARTnews}} After the Frick closed for renovation, museum officials launched several digital programs, including drawing classes and discussions about artwork.{{cite web | last=Terry | first=Christa | title=Here's Everything Going On at the Frick Until It Reopens Later This Year | website=Observer | date=March 8, 2024 | url=https://observer.com/2024/03/frick-collection-digital-programming-closure-reopening/ | access-date=May 10, 2024}}

Every year since 2000, the Frick hosts the Young Fellows Ball, a springtime gala for philanthropists who are largely under age 40.{{cite web |last=Ramzi |first=Lilah |date=March 31, 2023 |title=The Frick Collection's Young Fellows Ball Was a "Bejeweled" Affair |url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/the-frick-young-fellows-ball-2023 |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=Vogue |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Ortved |first=John |date=April 8, 2022 |title=Pink and Sequins at the Frick Young Fellows Ball |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/08/style/pink-and-sequins-at-the-frick-young-fellows-ball.html |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} The museum also started hosting an annual Garden Party in 2008;{{cite web |last=Akers |first=W.M. |date=May 19, 2010 |title=So, I Went to a Garden Party… |url=https://observer.com/2010/05/so-i-went-to-a-garden-party/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Observer}}{{Cite news |last=Heyman |first=Marshall |date=July 14, 2012 |title=Museums Court Young Art Lovers |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303740704577525072976306832.html |access-date=February 10, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=A.19 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|1024780055}}}} the event, which began as a members-only gathering, evolved into an annual fundraiser. In 2016, the Frick introduced First Fridays, in which patrons could visit the museum for free on the first Friday of every month.{{cite web |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=September 8, 2016 |title=Frick Collection to Offer Free Admission on First Fridays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/arts/design/frick-collection-free-admission-first-fridays.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/arts/design/frick-collection-free-admission-first-fridays.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=The Frick Launches Free Monthly Evening Series- First Fridays {{!}} The Frick Collection |url=https://www.frick.org/press/frick_launches_free_monthly_evening_series-_first_fridays |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204203313/https://www.frick.org/press/frick_launches_free_monthly_evening_series-_first_fridays |archive-date=December 4, 2020 |access-date=December 8, 2020 |website=www.frick.org}} First Fridays include gallery talks and activities for visitors.

The Concerts from the Frick Collection series was launched in 1938{{cite web |last=Beegle |first=Raymond |date=January 24, 2017 |title=2017 Concerts at The Frick Collection Are a Work of Art |url=https://observer.com/2017/01/2017-concerts-frick-collection-museum/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Observer}} and has continued through the 20th and 21st centuries.{{cite web |date=September 11, 2017 |title=New York's Classical Music Radio Station |url=https://www.wqxr.org/shows/frick/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |publisher=WQXR}}{{cite news |date=August 13, 2015 |title=The Frick Collection's Concert Series Celebrates its 77th Season with Dynamic Programs this Fall |work=Italian Voice |page=3 |id={{ProQuest|1710649080}}}} Musicians who have performed at the Frick Collection have included Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, Guarneri String Quartet, Wanda Landowska, Gregor Piatigorsky, Artur Schnabel, and Kiri Te Kanawa. The concerts were broadcast on radio starting in 1939, first on the Municipal Broadcasting System, then on American Public Radio and WNYC. Although visitors originally could listen to the concerts free of charge (even after the museum started charging an admission fee), a separate admission charge for concerts was instituted in 2005.{{cite web |last=Mattison |first=Ben |date=June 30, 2005 |title=New York's Frick Collection to Charge for Concerts |url=https://playbill.com/article/new-yorks-frick-collection-to-charge-for-concerts |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Playbill}} Prior to the 2020s renovation, the concerts were hosted in the Frick House's music room.{{Cite news |last=Tommasini |first=Anthony |date=June 29, 2018 |title=As the Frick Expands, New York City Music Suffers |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/arts/music/frick-collection-expansion-music-room.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/arts/music/frick-collection-expansion-music-room.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}

The collection is detailed in books such as Masterpieces of the Frick Collection, first published in 1970,{{cite web |last=Walker |first=John |date=May 17, 1970 |title=Masterpieces Of the Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/17/archives/masterpieces-of-the-frick-collection-a-lowkeyed-salute-to-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214848/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/05/17/archives/masterpieces-of-the-frick-collection-a-lowkeyed-salute-to-the-frick.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} and Art in the Frick Collection, first published in 1996.{{cite web |last=Barnet |first=Andrea |date=April 6, 1997 |title=Books in Brief: Nonfiction |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-337919.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} The history of the collection was also detailed in Henry Clay Frick: An Intimate Portrait, a biography of Frick written by his great-granddaughter Martha Frick Symington Sanger in 1998. Sanger's subsequent book The Henry Clay Frick House: Architecture-Interiors—Landscapes in the Golden Era, published in 2001, described the Frick House and its collection in detail.{{Cite magazine |last=Soltesz |first=David |date=October 15, 2001 |title=The Henry Clay Frick House: Architecture-Interiors-Landscapes in the Golden Era |magazine=Library Journal |page=71 |volume=126 |issue=17 |id={{ProQuest|196786157}}}} In 2011, the Frick and the BNP Paribas Foundation published a guidebook on the collection, its history, and the Frick House.{{Cite news |date=June 9, 2011 |title=Frick and the BNP Paribas Foundation Publish a New Guide to the Collection |work=Italian Voice |page=6 |id={{ProQuest|874992043}}}} The Frick launched its Diptych series in 2017; the series consists of short books with essays that relate to paintings from the museum's collection.{{Cite news |last=Barone |first=Joshua |date=July 24, 2017 |title=Books From the Frick to Offer Authors' Views on Major Works |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/arts/design/the-frick-books-to-offer-authors-views-on-major-works.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}

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The museum is ordinarily located at the Henry Clay Frick House at 1 East 70th Street,{{harvnb|White|Willensky|Leadon|2010|page=436}} which is part of Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile.{{Cite news |last=Davis |first=William A. |date=April 30, 1989 |title=Upper East Side galleries and museums make New York a world center for art |work=  The Sun |page=6L |id={{ProQuest|1639449833}}}} The house spans an entire blockfront on Fifth Avenue between 70th and 71st Streets.{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=July 8, 2010 |title=The Late Great Charles Schwab Mansion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/realestate/11streets.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229012328/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/realestate/11streets.html |archive-date=December 29, 2023 |access-date=January 27, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} The original structure from 1914 was designed by Thomas Hastings in the Beaux-Arts style. The same style is also used for the 1970s reception wing,{{Cite news |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |date=July 30, 2014 |title=The Case Against a Mammoth Frick Collection Addition |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/arts/design/the-case-against-a-mammoth-frick-collection-addition.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012131/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/arts/design/the-case-against-a-mammoth-frick-collection-addition.html |url-status=live}} designed by Harry Van Dyke, John Barrington Bayley, and G. Frederick Poehler. Both structures have a facade of Indiana Limestone.{{harvnb|ps=.|Morrone|2009|pages=299–300}} The house has a lawn that is mostly closed to the public.{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1400538647}} |title=Frolicking at the Frick; The Garden Party on the Lawn of the Henry Clay Frick Home |last=Bratburd |first=Rebecca |date=July 8, 2013 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660}}

The interiors were designed by a variety of people. The British decorator Charles Allom furnished most of the rooms on the ground floor,{{cite news |last=Morrone |first=Francis |date=December 8, 2006 |title=The House That Frick Built |url=http://www.nysun.com/arts/house-that-frick-built/44851/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180209224936/http://www.nysun.com/arts/house-that-frick-built/44851 |archive-date=February 9, 2018 |access-date=November 8, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Sun}}{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=47}} while the majority of the rooms on the second and third floors were decorated by Elsie de Wolfe.{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=63}}{{harvnb|National Park Service|2008|ps=.|pp=18–19}} Charles Carstairs and Joseph Duveen provided the original decorations for the rooms.{{harvnb|National Park Service|2008|ps=.|p=19}}{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|pages=70, 73}} Inside the house are the museum's galleries (adapted from the old living spaces of the mansion), as well as a courtyard with reflecting pool,{{Cite news |last=Jackson |first=Nancy |date=April 28, 1985 |title=Art dwells in millionaires' homes |work=Boston Globe |page=B17 |id={{ProQuest|1821138411}}}} the latter of which is based on a Roman atrium.{{cite web |last=Kugel |first=Seth |date=May 25, 2008 |title=Weekend in New York: Small Gardens |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/travel/25weekend.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} Some parts of the house have been modified over the years specifically to accommodate the artwork, including a room for the Fragonard panels.{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=John |date=April 13, 1986 |title=Art View; Sprucing Up Rejuvenates Some Superb Fragonards |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/13/arts/art-view-sprucing-up-rejuvenates-some-superb-fragonards.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214606/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/13/arts/art-view-sprucing-up-rejuvenates-some-superb-fragonards.html |url-status=live}} In addition to the artwork and artifacts on display, there are bookcases placed throughout the Frick House's rooms, and some rooms have various other pieces of furniture such as a dining table.

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The Frick Collection oversees the Frick Art Research Library,{{harvnb|ps=.|Ballard|2016|page=37}} which was established in 1920 and opened to researchers in June 1924.{{cite journal |last=Howell |first=Hannah Johnson |year=1951 |title=The Frick Art Reference Library |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/772702 |journal=College Art Journal |publisher=[College Art Association, Taylor & Francis, Ltd.] |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=123–126 |doi=10.2307/772702 |issn=1543-6322 |jstor=772702 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221002/https://www.jstor.org/stable/772702 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }} The library is housed at a 13-story building at 10 East 71st Street (next to the original mansion).{{Cite magazine |last=Morais |first=Richard C. |date=January 20, 2014 |title=The Precious Frick Library |magazine=Barron's |page=35 |volume=94 |issue=3 |id={{ProQuest|1490935602}}}} Prior to the library building's opening, the basement bowling alley was used as storage space for the library's collection.{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=October 15, 2000 |title=Streetscapes/The Frick Art Reference Library; A Memorial Built by a Daughter for Her Father |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/realestate/streetscapes-frick-art-reference-library-memorial-built-daughter-for-her-father.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214424/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/realestate/streetscapes-frick-art-reference-library-memorial-built-daughter-for-her-father.html |url-status=live}} The library has always been open to the public, except during World War II, when it was closed for six months, and during the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 renovation, when it was shuttered while being moved to the Frick Madison. The library is typically open free of charge to "any adult with a serious interest in art". In the late 20th century, the library served 6,000 people a year on average, most of whom made advance reservations or requests.

Helen Frick acted as director for six decades, during which time its collection expanded to include 50,000 sales catalogs, 400,000 photographs, and 150,000 books.{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=November 10, 1984 |title=Helen Clay Frick Dies at 96; Founded Art Library in 1920 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/10/obituaries/helen-clay-frick-dies-at-96-founded-art-library-in-1920.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029160054/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/10/obituaries/helen-clay-frick-dies-at-96-founded-art-library-in-1920.html |url-status=live}} By the 1990s, the library had an estimated 235,000 volumes,{{cite web |last=Shepard |first=Richard F. |date=December 30, 1990 |title=Frick Reference Library Is Obliged to Seek Funds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/30/arts/frick-reference-library-is-obliged-to-seek-funds.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201215093957/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/30/arts/frick-reference-library-is-obliged-to-seek-funds.html |url-status=live}} which grew to 280,000 by the late 2000s. The collections of the library focus on art of the Western tradition from the fourth century to the mid-twentieth century, and chiefly include information about paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and illuminated manuscripts. Archival materials supplement its research collections.{{cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |date=June 10, 2009 |title=In Frick's Basement, a Secret Masterpiece |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11rooms.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190823174219/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11rooms.html |archive-date=August 23, 2019 |access-date=August 23, 2019 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}} The Frick Art Research Library Photoarchive contains over a million photocopies of artwork, including objects that are not in the museum's collection.{{Cite news |last=Loos |first=Ted |date=March 14, 2017 |title='Photo Archives Are Sleeping Beauties.' Pharos Is Their Prince. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/arts/design/art-history-digital-archive-museums-pharos.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}

The Frick has been part of the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), which also includes the Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum, since 2007. NYARC operates Arcade, an online catalog that combines the collections of the three museums' libraries.{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=March 14, 2010 |title=New York Museum Libraries Unite Decades of Research |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18LIBRARY.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news |last=Keogh |first=K. M. |date=Apr 2012 |title=New York Art Resources Consortium |work=Choice |page=1414 |volume=49 |issue=8 |id={{ProQuest|1019972435}}}} The Center for the History of Collecting, also founded in 2007,{{cite news |last=Gardner |first=Ralph Jr. |date=January 9, 2013 |title=The Art of Collecting |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323936804578229893194035224 |access-date=February 10, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=A.16 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|126722473}}}} is also part of the library.{{cite press release |title=Frick Art Reference Library's Center for the History of Collecting Reaches a Milestone and Celebrates Tenth Anniversary |website=The Frick Collection |date=August 5, 2020 |url=https://www.frick.org/press/frick_art_reference_library%E2%80%99s_center_for_history_collecting_reaches_milestone_celebrates_tenth |access-date=February 10, 2024}} The Frick is a member of the International Consortium of Photo Archives (PHAROS), which operates a database of digitized artworks from the collections of 14 art museums.

The Frick Collection is operated by a nonprofit organization of the same name, which is dedicated to conserving the artworks in the museum's collection.{{cite web |title=The Frick Collection |url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/13-1624012 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=GuideStar Profile |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.guidestar.org/profile/13-1624012 |url-status=live}} Axel Rüger was named the Frick's director in 2024, while Xavier F. Salomon is the chief curator.{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Staff |url=https://www.frick.org/about/staff |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection}} The director's position has been known as the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Director since 2020,{{cite press release |title=Frick Directorship Named in Honor of Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen |website=The Frick Collection |date=August 5, 2020 |url=https://www.frick.org/press/frick_directorship_named_honor_anna-maria_stephen_kellen |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.frick.org/press/frick_directorship_named_honor_anna-maria_stephen_kellen |url-status=live}} while the chief curator's position is known as the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator.{{cite press release |title=Xavier F. Salomon Appointed Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator of The Frick Collection |website=The Frick Collection |date=August 5, 2020 |url=https://www.frick.org/press/xavier_f_salomon_appointed_peter_jay_sharp_chief_curator_frick_collection |access-date=February 9, 2024}}

The museum's board of trustees originally comprised nine trustees and was largely composed of Frick family members. The board was relatively small during the 20th century, with nine trustees until the 1990s and eleven by 2003. Under Poulet's directorship, in the 2000s, the board was expanded by 10 members and was broadened to include more people from outside the Frick family. Poulet also introduced the Director's Circle, a group of 44 members who each give a minimum of $25,000 a year to the Frick Collection.

After the museum opened in 1935, it accommodated 5,000 visitors in its first week and 100,000 visitors in six months; at its peak, the museum saw 1,600 visitors in one day.{{Cite news |date=June 26, 1936 |title=Frick Art Seen by 100,000; New Museum to Be Closed During August for Cleaning. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/06/26/archives/frick-art-seen-by-100000-new-museum-to-be-closed-during-august-for.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201014800/https://www.nytimes.com/1936/06/26/archives/frick-art-seen-by-100000-new-museum-to-be-closed-during-august-for.html |url-status=live}} At the end of 1936, the museum had seen 136,000 visitors, an average of 460 per day. In the 1970s, the museum recorded between 800 and 1,500 daily visitors. The number of annual visitors averaged 250,000 by the late 1990s, and annual attendance had increased to 350,000 by the early 2000s. The Frick Collection had a typical annual attendance of up to 300,000 in the 2010s,{{cite web |first=Julia |last=Halperin |title=Fricks finch lays golden egg |website=The Art Newspaper |date=January 13, 2014 |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Fricks-finch-lays-golden-egg/31556 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213163108/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Fricks-finch-lays-golden-egg/31556 |archive-date=February 13, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=February 7, 2024}} although it recorded 420,000 visitors in 2013 due to a particularly popular exhibit there.{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 16, 2014 |title=The Redesign of a Design Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/17/arts/design/renovating-the-cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Shows in the 2010s attracted upwards of 4,000 daily visitors.

The Frick was originally free to enter but has charged an admission fee since 1976. The museum offers pay-as-you-wish hours one day of the week, in addition to free admission on First Fridays.{{Cite news |last=Chow |first=Andrew R. |date=June 1, 2017 |title=Frick Collection Expands Pay-What-You-Wish Hours |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/arts/design/frick-collection-expands-pay-what-you-wish-hours.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Free admission is also provided to members of the Frick; students and staff of certain universities in New York City; certain demographic groups such as youth, senior citizens, and people with disabilities; and other groups such as military personnel.{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Discounted and Free Admission |url=https://www.frick.org/tickets/discounted_free |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102014112/https://www.frick.org/tickets/discounted_free |archive-date=January 2, 2023 |url-status=live}} Frick Collection members receive several membership benefits,{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Membership Levels and Benefits |url=https://www.frick.org/support/membership/levels_benefits |access-date=March 4, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection}} including a queue jump for exhibits.{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=January 16, 2014 |title=Dutch Bonanza for the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/arts/design/dutch-bonanza-for-the-frick.html |access-date=March 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} As part of the Culture Pass program, persons with cards from New York City's public libraries{{efn|The Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Library, and New York Public Library}} could also visit the museum for free with a Culture Pass,{{cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |date=August 12, 2019 |title=Culture Pass NYC: How to get one, where to use it and what to know |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/culture-pass-nyc-1-20607138/ |access-date=February 12, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Passy |first=Charles |date=July 16, 2018 |title=New York City Library Cards Begin New Chapter as Free Museum Passes |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-library-cards-begin-new-chapter-as-free-museum-passes-1531713661 |access-date=February 12, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660}} albeit with restrictions on the number of passes distributed.{{Cite news |last=Svachula |first=Amanda |date=July 21, 2018 |title=Library Cards Rival Golden Tickets With Culture Pass Option |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/arts/library-cards-rival-golden-tickets-with-culture-pass-option.html |access-date=February 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }} Until 2019, the Frick also sold the Connoisseur Pass,{{cite web | title=Expired: Connoisseur Pass | website=The Frick Collection | date=January 30, 2024 | url=https://www.frick.org/tickets/connoisseur_pass | access-date=April 27, 2024}} which also provided admission to the Morgan Library & Museum and Neue Galerie New York.{{cite web | last=Weaver | first=Shaye | title=Visit The Frick and 2 Other Museums for $40 This Summer | website=DNAinfo New York | date=June 23, 2017 | url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170623/upper-east-side/frick-neue-galerie-morgan-museum-connoisseur-summer-pass/ | access-date=April 27, 2024 | archive-date=April 27, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427215140/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170623/upper-east-side/frick-neue-galerie-morgan-museum-connoisseur-summer-pass/ | url-status=dead }}

Children under the age of 10 are not allowed inside the museum; this restriction, intended to protect the paintings, has existed ever since the museum opened in 1935. As part of the same restriction, youths between 10 and 15 years old are allowed to enter only if there is an adult with them. The museum provides guided tours to small groups and school classes. Starting in the late 1990s, the museum provided complimentary audio guides to visitors; it later added the Bloomberg Connects smartphone app.{{cite web | title=Audio Tours | website=The Frick Collection | date=January 30, 2024 | url=https://www.frick.org/visit/museum/audio | access-date=April 10, 2024}} The guides are offered in several languages and consist of handsets that provide information about the artworks and the subjects of each painting.{{Cite news |last=Langan |first=Fred |date=July 6, 2002 |title=New York's museum in a mansion: Frick Collection has staggering sample of Old Masters – and ArtPhone to explain all about the paintings |work=The London Gazette |page=I8 |id={{ProQuest|433844330}}}} The Frick also launched its website in the late 1990s; the website has been updated several times since then.{{cite web |date=December 12, 2012 |title=Frick Launches Redesigned, Expanded Website |url=https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2012/12/frick-launches-redesigned-expanded-website/ |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=New York Almanack}}

Frick's will established a $15 million endowment fund for what would become the Frick Collection museum. At the Frick Collection Inc.'s 50th anniversary in 1970, the museum's endowment had grown to $40 million, and it received more than $1 million a year in income. By 1997, the Frick Collection had an operating budget of $10 million and an endowment of $170 million; this increased in the mid-2000s to a budget of $18.8 million and an endowment of $200 million. As of 2015, the museum had an endowment of $315 million.{{cite web |last=Freeman |first=Nate |title=The Battle for the Frick: Can Thousands of Garden-Loving Activists Stop a Museum? |website=Observer |date=April 8, 2015 |url=https://observer.com/2015/04/the-battle-for-the-frick-can-thousands-of-garden-loving-activists-stop-a-museum/ |access-date=March 4, 2024}}

In 1912, before the collection had become a museum, Town & Country magazine wrote that Frick owned "one of the greatest private collections of paintings in the world". Art World magazine said in 1917 that the Frick House contained "one of the most remarkable assemblies of old paintings in the United States belonging to a private collector", rivaling the collection of the former Lenox Library on the same site.{{cite magazine |date=March 1, 1917 |title=The Henry Clay Frick Collection |magazine=Art World |page=377 |id={{ProQuest|128317688}}}} When the Frick Collection opened to the public in 1935, a critic for The New York Times wrote that the museum's "informality in the distribution of works of art has even its amusing overtones",{{Cite news |last=Jewell |first=Edward Alden |date=December 12, 1935 |title=Frick Art Exhibition Reveals A Rich Pageant of Paintings; Costly Collection, Informally Hung, Ranges From Italian Primitives to Works of 19th Century – Wide Knowledge and Collector's Love of Art Disclosed. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/frick-art-exhibition-reveals-a-rich-pageant-of-paintings-costly.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201014755/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/frick-art-exhibition-reveals-a-rich-pageant-of-paintings-costly.html |url-status=live}} while another commentator in The Christian Science Monitor regarded the collection as having "long been recognized as one of the world's treasuries of art". One of the few detractors was Lewis Mumford, who felt that the other objects in the house diverted visitors' attention from the visual art.

A Los Angeles Times critic wrote in 1941 that few other art collections in the U.S. "so completely [exemplified] a great period in American art collecting".{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Arthur |date=March 28, 1941 |title=Frick's Art Outstanding: 'Times' Critic Tells of Late Steelmaster's Fabulous Collection |work=Los Angeles Times |page=B1 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|165121083}}}} The New York Times wrote in 1969 that the Frick was one of the world's best "residence-museums" along with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Wallace Collection. A critic for the Christian Science Monitor said in 1971 that the collection's paintings seemed to fit the building because Frick had "to be sure he felt at home with them". Another critic, writing for The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, in 1975, praised the museum's "tranquility and superb decorative arts coupled with masterworks".{{Cite news |last=Muck |first=Gordon |date=April 28, 1975 |title=Art Views & News |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-standard-art-views-news/140115681/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The Post-Standard |pages=18 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214827/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-post-standard-art-views-news/140115681/ |url-status=live}}

John Russell of the Times said in 1981 that "The Frick is loved for its unpushy ways, for the largesse of its hospitality and for the high quality of what it has to show." In a review for the Christian Science Monitor the same year, Madeline Lee wrote that the museum was special because of its courtyard and reflecting pool;{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Madeline |date=November 16, 1981 |title=New York's small, exquisite museums |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=B3 |id={{ProQuest|512275345}}}} another reviewer for the same newspaper said "The Frick is the only museum I know whose collection consists almost exclusively of great or nearly great art." GQ magazine said that "the most renowned—and probably best—combined house and art collection of a so-called 'robber baron' is that of Henry Clay Frick".{{Cite magazine |last=Sloane |first=Harry Herbert |date=Mar 1983 |title=Yesterday's Paris Lights' Homes Glow on Housing Art |magazine=Gentlemen's Quarterly |page=26 |volume=53 |issue=3 |id={{ProQuest|2414358614}}}} Bryan Miller of the Times wrote in 1987 that there were "artistic gems in every room",{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Bryan |date=April 24, 1987 |title=Running a Cultural Marathon: Packing Plays, Movies and Pop Into One Arts-filled Weekend |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/24/arts/running-cultural-marathon-packing-plays-movies-pop-into-one-arts-filled-weekend.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231309/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/24/arts/running-cultural-marathon-packing-plays-movies-pop-into-one-arts-filled-weekend.html |url-status=live}} and Grace Glueck of the same paper called it "the enclave of masterpieces". A Los Angeles Times critic in 1990 said the Frick Collection "represents the aristocratic aspirations of turn-of-the-century robber barons".{{Cite web |last=Knight |first=Christopher |date=November 25, 1990 |title=Commentary: Hammer's Exercise in Superfluousness |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-11-25-ca-7553-story.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=Los Angeles Times |issn=0458-3035 }} Another New York Times critic called the museum "as frumpy and elegant as a dowager queen", describing the quality of its collection and the Frick House.{{cite web |first=Charles |last=Hagen |title=Oases; When All of New York Is a Gallery to Browse |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 13, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/13/news/oases-when-all-of-new-york-is-a-gallery-to-browse.html |access-date=February 5, 2024}} A Globe and Mail reviewer said the museum was extremely peaceful and was "a more comfortable museum than most" because it used to serve as a residence.{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Daniel |date=October 30, 1996 |title=New York's museums outside the spotlight: While a handful of the city's institutions make the news, there are more than 70 all together. Here is a list of the more memorable, low-profile ones |work=The Globe and Mail |page=D4 |id={{ProQuest|1139276138}}}}

A 2000 poll by Travel Holiday magazine ranked the Frick Collection as the third-best art museum in the U.S.{{Cite news |date=October 28, 2000 |title=D.C. gallery is top art museum in U.S. |work=Nanaimo Daily News |page=D2 |id={{ProQuest|361114000}}}} Upon the museum's 75th anniversary in 2010, a Wall Street Journal critic wrote that, although the museum lacked major shows and had not undergone a high-profile renovation, it "quietly attracts a steady stream of about 300,000 visitors each year who come to see one of the most extraordinary assemblages of fine and decorative arts in the world". A reviewer for the Condé Nast Traveler wrote that the museum was "exactly the right scale, everything in the collection is worth seeing, and can be viewed in an hour or less", while a New Yorker writer said that "you feel more than welcomed—you feel invited, like a family friend" at the Frick House.{{cite magazine |last=Schjeldahl |first=Peter |date=February 3, 2021 |title=When a Museum Feels Like Home |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/when-a-museum-feels-like-home |access-date=February 9, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker}} A critic for the Daily Telegraph wrote in 2014 that the Frick was "the best small museum in New York, perfect if you don't fancy dealing with a crush of people at MoMA or the Met".{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Douglas |date=February 23, 2014 |title=Pathways through an urbane jungle: New York has a bewildering choice of attractions. Douglas Rogers offers a select guide to help you make the most of your stay |work= The Sunday Telegraph |page=8 |id={{ProQuest|1501005698}}}}

When the museum was temporarily relocated to 945 Madison Avenue, one critic wrote that the temporary building was "an exercise in contrasts" with the Frick House's decorations and that "the vibe here is serious and meditative". Another critic wrote for Vogue that the Frick Madison was a "shock to the senses in every way" but that "the collection comes directly to the fore" amid that building's bare walls,{{cite web |last=Marius |first=Marley |date=March 17, 2021 |title=Seeing a Collection Anew at the Frick Madison |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/frick-madison |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Vogue}} and writers for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal similarly said that the spartan setting helped highlight the collection itself.{{cite web |first=Ariella |last=Budick |date=March 15, 2021 |title=How the Frick Collection fares in its temporary home |website=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/6ba1b281-4c6e-44c7-8d32-ad05181730d9 |access-date=February 9, 2024}} Holland Cotter of The New York Times wrote that the museum's collection "looked glamorous as always but lonely for" the Frick House.

After the house's renovation was finished, Wall Street Journal writer Eric Gibson wrote that the relocations of some artwork had "added depth and texture to the Frick experience". while Cotter wrote that the museum "feels organic" because of how the artwork was arranged. A writer for Art News said the museum "offers a dream of art, where images enchant as much as instruct".

• Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, a similar museum further north on Fifth Avenue
• List of museums in New York City
• List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City

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• {{cite book |last=Bailey |first=Colin B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKvpAAAAMAAJ |title=Building the Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and Its Collections |publisher=Scala Arts Publishers Inc. |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-912114-30-9}}
• {{cite book |last=Ballard |first=Terry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pI2rCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |title=50 Specialty Libraries of New York City: From Botany to Magic |publisher=Elsevier Science |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-08-100560-6 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://books.google.com/books?id=pI2rCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite book | last1=Feigenbaum | first1=Gail |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfD3EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA335 |title=Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880–1930 |last2=van Ginhoven |first2=Sandra |last3=Sterrett |first3=Edward |publisher=Getty Research Institute |year=2024 |isbn=978-1-60606-891-5 |series=Issues & Debates |ref={{harvid|Feigenbaum|2024}}}}
• {{cite book |author=The Frick Collection |title=Handbook of Paintings |publisher=Scala Arts Publishers, Inc. |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-85759-328-0 }}
• {{cite report |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08001091_NHL.pdf |title=Historic Structures Report: The Frick Collection and Frick Art Reference Library Building |date=October 6, 2008 |publisher=National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service |ref={{harvid|National Park Service|2008}}}}
• {{cite book |last=Morrone |first=Francis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnM7nPb43DoC&pg=PA299 |title=Architectural Guidebook to New York City |publisher=Gibbs Smith, Publisher |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4236-1116-5|archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231338/https://books.google.com/books?id=EnM7nPb43DoC&pg=PA299 |url-status=live}}
• {{cite book |last=Saltzman |first=Cynthia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f8FQzgAL_aUC&pg=PA162 |title=Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures, 1880-World War I |publisher=Viking |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-670-01831-4}}
• {{cite book |last1=Sanger |first1=Martha Frick Symington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HRpUAAAAMAAJ |title=The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden Era |last2=Garrett |first2=Wendell |publisher=Monacelli Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-58093-104-5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131020121/https://books.google.com/books?id=HRpUAAAAMAAJ |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |ref={{harvid|Sanger|2001}}}}
• {{cite book |last=Skrabec, Jr. |first=Quentin R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPhKSI1o2tUC&pg=PA210 |title=Henry Clay Frick: The Life of the Perfect Capitalist |publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-7864-5608-6 |series=EBL-Schweitzer |page=210 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203213034/https://books.google.com/books?id=VPhKSI1o2tUC&pg=PA210 |url-status=live |archive-date=February 3, 2024}}
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• {{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Colin B. |title=Fragonard's Progress of Love at the Frick Collection |date=2011 |publisher=D Gilles |others=Frick Collection |isbn=978-1-904832-60-7}}
• {{Cite book |last=Focarino |first=Joseph |title=The Frick Collection. 9: Drawings, prints, and later acquisitions |date=2003 |publisher=Distrubuted by Princeton University Press [Princeton, N.J.] |isbn=978-0-691-03836-0}}
• {{cite book | last=Salomon | first=Xavier F. | title=Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building | publisher=Giles | publication-place=New York, NY | date=September 7, 2021 | isbn=978-1-913875-03-9 | page=}} (Foreword by Roxane Gay; photographed by Joe Coscia Jr.; with texts by Ian Wardropper and Xavier F. Salomon.)
• {{Cite book |title=Handbook of Paintings |date=2004 |publisher=The Frick Collection |isbn=978-1-85759-328-0 |editor-last=Koss |editor-first=Elaine }}
• {{Cite book |title=Art in the Frick Collection: paintings, sculpture, decorative arts |date=1996 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-1972-3 |editor-last=Ryskamp |editor-first=Charles |editor-last2=Focarino |editor-first2=Joseph |editor-last3=DiLiberto |editor-first3=Richard |editor-last4=Frick Collection}}
• {{Cite book |title=Paintings from the Frick Collection |date=1990 |publisher=Abrams |isbn=978-0-8109-3710-9 |editor-last=Ryskamp |editor-first=Charles |editor-last2=Focarino |editor-first2=Joseph}}
• {{Cite book |last=Salomon |first=Xavier F. |title=Cocktails with a Curator |publisher=Rizzoli Publications |date=October 11, 2022 |isbn=978-0-8478-7246-6}}

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• {{official website|https://www.frick.org/}}
• [https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-frick-collection?hl=en Virtual tour of the Frick Collection] provided by Google Arts & Culture
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20150523002138/http://research.frick.org/directoryweb/recordlista.php The Frick Collection, Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America]

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