The Frick Museum and the New Portico Gallery

The Frick Museum is one of my favorite art museums, for all the great art it contains and for the beauty of the building is a majestic work of architecture.  The Frick contains some of the world's greatest European artworks: paintings, sculptures, small bronzes, 18thC French furniture, porcelains, etc.  There are paintings by Turner, Rembrandt, Goya, El Greco, Vermeer and Whistler.  As you first enter, there are two Vermeer oil paintings (22) and a muted oil painting by Turner.  Notice the wood moldings, doorways and ceilings as you move from one gallery to the next.  The intricate tapestries and embroidery on furnishings are exquisite.  My favorite gallery is the small rotunda with 4 large Whistler portraits. Two of the women's portraits (251) are Flesh Color Pink and Harmony in Pink Gray both juxtoposed directly across from 2 very dark portraits where the figures blend into the black bakground (261). The New Portico Gallery opened earlier this year displaying Meissen Porcelain; White Gold Highlights from the Armhold collection & 2 sculptures by Houdon; The Dead Thrush and Dianna the Huntress.  Oct. 2nd a new exhibit of master drawings opens; Mantegna to Matisse.  I regretted not getting to the Frick earlier this past year. If you only have time for one art museum, the Frick is the one not to be missed.