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The Frick Collection s New Home Away from Home
The legendary museum embarks on a two-year renovation and moves its collection to Madison Avenue.
By Phyllis Tuchman Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art
When I was a girl, I loved visiting the Frick Collection. Let Eloise roam around the Plaza Hotel in my Sunday best, I preferred looking at the beautiful paintings in the limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue where an actual family had once lived. Much later I learned more about Vermeer, Rembrandt, Ingres, Bellini, El Greco, and the other Old Masters who were displayed on the damask walls and in wood-paneled rooms that the industrialist Henry Clay Frick had inhabited. To this day I’m a regular visitor who relishes time-traveling back to the Gilded Age.
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