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Since Fricks 1919 death, this stupendous museum has added countless gifts and acquisitions.
A Watteau entered the collection in 1991.
At the Frick, we commune with the ages.
Theres almost twice as much on view now.
Whats not to love?
The collector Isabella Stewart Gardner ruefully proclaimed, Woe is me!
Why am I not Morgan or Frick?
He turned around and bought two equally great Holbeins of Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell.
Frick preferred portraits and landscape over narrative and religious subject matter.
As for the portraits, Bellinis supernalSt.
Romneys saccharineEmma Hart, Later Lady Hamilton, As Naturewas hung over the fireplace in his bedroom.
of them are here, including Fricks final buy, Vermeers etherealMistress and Maid.
Every visit to the Frick Collection leaves you amazed.
(Lucian Freud observed, I cant see Van Goghs Boots without Constable behind them.
At six feet wide, it is large, picturing what today is known as Constable country.
Gray rain clouds gather on the right side of the painting.
(The farm is there today.)
The shadow is always encroaching, but some things are meant to endure.
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