Initiated over a decade ago by its former Director Samuel Sachs, and continued by his successor, Anne Poulet, the Frick Collection has sponsored a series of small, “focused” exhibitions that have added considerably to New York’s cultural landscape. The pace of these undertakings has progressively increased as has their scope and ambition—limited only by the space available in the magnificent Carrère and Hastings-designed hôtel particulier.

New Yorkers should be grateful that they are being offered such a steady stream of thoughtfully arranged and intelligently curated “memoranda” in the visual arts. As appropriate adjuncts to the Frick’s permanent collections, these exhibits pertain principally to European painting, sculpture, and drawing, from the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Currently arranged in the spacious central rotunda are five large...

 

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