ANN: Mapping Provenance: Holbein’s “Sir Thomas More” – A blog post by the Frick Collection
The provenance of Sir Thomas More—Hans Holbein the Younger’s dazzling likeness of the famed humanist scholar who defied Henry VIII and ultimately lost his head—begins with a 104-year gap. What happened to this panel…
ANN: Seminar: Introduction to Web Archiving (Frick Art Reference Library, 8 June 2021, 4-5pm EDT)
In today’s online environment, websites have become important cultural resources and research objects, as increasingly the activities and publications of galleries, museums, artists, and auction houses occur solely online with no analog counterpart….
WWW: 175,000 new Photograph Records Available Digitally from the Frick’s Digital Collections
The Frick Art Reference Library has completed a three-year project to digitize the library’s historic Photoarchive collection. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this initiative has made records and images for more…
ANN: “Provenance Stories” from the Frick Collection (online, 30 Oct 2020, 4-5pm EDT)
Provenance StoriesFriday, October 30, 2020, 4 – 5 p.m. EDTLive through Zoom Join Michelle McCarthy-Behler, Reference Librarian, for a free webinar highlighting the ownership histories of three objects connected with the Frick Library. Through these case studies,…
ANN: Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship (4 online lectures: 7/14/21/28 October – The Frick Center for the History of Collecting, NYC)
A series of four online lectures – Collecting Impressions: Six Centuries of Print Connoisseurship (4 online lectures: 7/14/21/28 October – The Frick Center for the History of Collecting, NYC) Link: https://www.frick.org/programs/library
ANN: Webinar on the Frick Collection Photoarchive
As part of The Frick Collection Library Program, this webinar will present information on researching the Frick Digital Collections. Photoarchive Research Using Frick Digital CollectionsThursday, 11 Jun4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
ANN: Webinar – WWII-Era Provenance Research, Friday, May 1, 2020, 4 – 5 p.m. EST, The Frick Collection, New York
This webinar will provide an introduction to WWII-era provenance research. It will include a historical overview of Nazi-era confiscation activities and common challenges faced in researching artwork of this period.
ANN: Questionnaire – Technological Revolutions and Art History
In conjunction with the upcoming MOMA/Frick conference “Technological Revolutions and Art History”, art historians, curators, conservators, art dealers, and art scholars are invited to complete a short questionnaire about your interest in collaborative…
ANN: “Goncourt Brothers and the Taste for the Eighteenth Century,” The Frick Collection, Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Presented by the Center for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, this two-part lecture examines the life and enduring influence of brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt, nineteenth-century connoisseurs and collectors…