Frick collection

The Frick collection garden taken from outside

Best light of the trip so far @ the Guggenheim

NYC has some pretty amazing museums, from the Guggenheim to the Met, MOMA to the Museum of Natural History. But my favourite is the Frick Collection - a mansion on the Upper East side filled with amazing art and interior design.

To steal from their website:

The Frick Collection was founded by Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the Pittsburgh coke and steel industrialist. At his death, Mr. Frick bequeathed his New York residence and the most outstanding of his many art works to establish a public gallery for the purpose of “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts.” Chief among his bequests, which also included sculpture, drawings, prints, and decorative arts such as furniture, porcelains, enamels, rugs and silver, were one hundred thirty-one paintings. Forty-seven additional paintings have been acquired over the years by the Trustees from an endowment provided by the founder and through gifts and bequests. As of the end of 1995 The Frick Collection housed a permanent collection of more than 1,100 works of art from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century.

When I last came to New York I did a lot of touristy things [Empire State Building, Yankees game, the library, the Met, Wall Street, Staten Island etc]. One of the only things I re-visited this time around [except for Magnolia bakery of course] was the Frick Collection. Definitely worth [another] look.