MEETING - Wednesday 17 June 2009 : A Feast for the Eyes - the Frick Collection, New York
The Frick Collection in New York includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.
The Collection is housed in sixteen galleries in the New York mansion built by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), one of America’s most successful coke and steel industrialists, and includes masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting.
The collection can be viewed on line here
Biographical details - Hilary Williams M.A.
Formerly Print Room Superintendent at the British Museum, now Art History Education Officer & NADFAS Liaison Officer at The British Museum. Hilary lectures for the British Museum, London Borough of Bexley and the Wallace Collection.
She is founding Artistic Director of North Kent Evening DFAS.
Another of her roles is guiding Special Interest Private Tours of the State Apartments at Buckingham Palace.