TOUR TO THE FRICK COLLECTION WITH PRIVATE GUIDE OF NEW YORK

TOUR TO THE FRICK COLLECTION WITH PRIVATE GUIDE OF NEW YORK

Visiting the Frick Collection gives you the idea of the period when New York's millionaires competed to build mansions along the fifth avenue and fill them treasures. Housed in the former residence of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick ( 1849-1919), the collection welcomes visitors from around the world since its celebrated opening as a museum and library in 1935.

Despite to the monumental character of some of the city's museums, the Frick is just the right size for a serene immersion in the arts in a refined setting. Furnishing and artworks are still arranged as though the Fricks were still in residence, without regard to chronology or period.

Frick was undoubtely a self made man: he started in coal mines, he was a millionaire by age 30. By 40 he was president of Carnegie Steel. He moved to New York in 1900 partly to protect his collection from the polluted Pittsburgh air. The frick Art Reference Library has 750.000 fotographs and 175,000 books in cathalogs.

The oval Room, formerly Frick's office, has large portraits by van Dyck and Gainsborough, witnessing his love for the Flemish and Dutch art.