Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building

SALOMON, Xavier F (author); Roxane GAY (foreword by); Joseph COSCIA JR (photographer)

ISBN 10: 1913875032 / ISBN 13: 9781913875039

Published by The Frick Collection, New York, 2021

About this Item

10 x 8.5 inches. 156 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "The Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts at the renowned Frick Collection might be thought to be all but inextricable from the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion in which they reside. For a couple of years, however, while the Frick is undergoing renovation, highlights from the collection have been relocated to a radically different, unlikely home: Marcel Breuer's Brutalist building five blocks away, which the architect designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The result is a stunning reconstruction and re-presentation of a beloved collection, with the museum's treasures comfortably and elegantly adapting to their temporary modernist abode. This handsome volume documents this altogether singular moment in the Frick's history with stunning photographs by Joseph Coscia Jr. and a reflective foreword by Roxane Gay" (the publisher). New in shrinkwrap.

Seller Inventory # 411227

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Frick Madison: The Frick Collection at the Breuer Building
• Publisher: The Frick Collection, New York
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913875032
• ISBN 13: 9781913875039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs

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Synopsis

The Old Master paintings and European sculpture and decorative arts at the renowned Frick Collection might be thought to be all but inextricable from the domestic setting of the Gilded Age mansion in which they reside. For a couple of years, however, while the Frick is undergoing renovation, highlights from the collection have been relocated to a radically different, unlikely home: Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist building five blocks away, which the architect designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art. The result is a stunning reconstruction and re-presentation of a beloved collection, with the museum’s treasures comfortably and elegantly adapting to their temporary modernist abode. This handsome volume documents this altogether singular moment in the Frick’s history with stunning photographs by Joseph Coscia Jr. and a reflective foreword by Roxane Gay.

About the Author

Joseph Coscia Jr., Head Photographer for The Frick Collection, has extensive experience photographing gallery installations, architecture, and a variety of art objects. Roxane Gay is an author and social commentator, as well as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. Xavier F. Salomon is the Frick's Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator.