Frick Art Reference Library
The Frick Art Reference Library is the research arm of the Frick Collection. It is typically located at 10 East 71st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. As of 2021, the library's reference services have temporarily relocated to 945 Madison Avenue.
Frick Art Reference Library
Entrance to the library
The Cabinet of an Art Collector, by Hieronymus Francken II, 1621, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Belgium
M. Knoedler & Co. (interior.), from the Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views
The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, the museum consists of 14th- to 19th-century European paintings, as well as other pieces of European fine and decorative art. The museum is located at the Henry Clay Frick House, a Beaux-Arts mansion designed for Henry Clay Frick. The Frick also houses the Frick Art Reference Library, an art history research center established by Frick's daughter Helen Clay Frick in 1920, which contains sales catalogs, books, periodicals, and photographs.
The museum's courtyard
When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.
The Frick Art Reference Library reopened in 1935.
Entrance to the Frick Collection