The Frick Collection annual report july 2012 – june 2013 The Frick Collection annual report july 2012 – june 2013 leadership 2 Board of Trustees reports 3 Margot Bogert, Chairman, and Ian Wardropper, Director 5 Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator and Acting Chief Curator 8 Stephen J. Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian collection 10 Museum Acquisitions and Notable Library Acquisitions public programming 11 Exhibitions and Lectures 12 Free Public Evenings 13 Symposia, Publications, and Concerts financial statements 14 Statement of Financial Position 15 Statement of Activities donor support and membership 16 Gifts and Grants 22 Fellows and Friends 29 Corporate Members and Sponsors staff 30 The Frick Collection 33 Frick Art Reference Library cover Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492), detail of Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, c. 1460–70, oil (and tempera?) on wood transferred to fabric on panel, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; photograph by Michael Agee The Frick Collection Board of Trustees As of June 30, 2013 Margot Bogert, Chairman L. F. Boker Doyle, Vice Chairman Franklin W. Hobbs, Treasurer Michael J. Horvitz, Secretary Peter P. Blanchard III Ayesha Bulchandani-Mathrani Blair Effron Jean-Marie Eveillard Barbara G. Fleischman Emily T. Frick Sidney R. Knafel Charles M. Royce Juan Sabater Stephen A. Schwarzman Aso O. Tavitian Ian Wardropper, ex officio Antonio Weiss Helen Clay Chace President Emerita John P. Birkelund I. Townsend Burden III Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Walter A. Eberstadt Howard Phipps Jr. Trustees Emeriti Annual Report July 2012–June 2013 2 long-term loan to the Frick of more than Letter from the Chairman and the Director twenty objects. The Frick acquired twenty- Margot Bogert & Ian Wardropper eight works for the permanent collection in the last twelve years, and many of these were the result of his efforts. Perhaps Colin’s he Frick Collection continues to inspired by the special exhibition Precision most indelible contribution to the Frick was T evolve and grow, but we never lose and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The the development of the Curatorial staff. He sight of our mission to offer our members Frick Collection. inaugurated positions including a full-time and visitors the best possible experience. We We continue to build our Board, and this Chief Conservator, Associate Conservator, continue to present thought-provoking exhi- year we added three new Trustees: Ayesha Senior Curator, Curator, Associate Curator bitions, expand our programs, and provide Bulchandani-Mathrani, Michael J. Horvitz, of Decorative Arts, and Assistant Curator. the oasis for contemplative reflection that and Sidney R. Knafel. All have been major We are grateful to him for his many contri- has become our hallmark. We stand today on supporters of the institution and have given butions to the institution, all of which will a very solid and healthy foundation thanks generously of their time and resources to have a lasting impact. to the efforts of a remarkably talented staff, a range of programs. Ayesha Bulchandani- This year we also said good-bye to Lynne the guidance of a dynamic Board of Trustees, Mathrani strongly believes in the Frick’s Rutkin, our Deputy Director for External and the loyal support of our members. We capacity to inspire and to educate and has Affairs. Lynne joined the Frick in 2006 celebrated the achievements of two depart- emerged as a proponent of the institution and subsequently helped to raise more than ing senior staff members, while anticipating through a combination of committee and $7 million annually to support exhibitions, the new ideas and fresh approaches their event involvement. Michael Horvitz’s experi- conservation activities, education programs, successors will bring to the institution. ence on civic and museum boards is exten- the Library, concerts, and other initiatives. The 2012 Autumn Dinner honored Henry sive and varied, and Sid Knafel has led A comparison of revenue generated during Arnhold, a distinguished civic leader and a a diverse group of companies involved in fiscal year 2006, before her arrival, and fis- long-time supporter of the institution. Mr. finance and communications in addition to cal year 2012 shows an 80 percent increase Arnhold is a passionate collector of Meissen supporting educational and philanthropic in funds raised. Owing in large part to her porcelain and a well-known authority in the causes. These individuals bring to the insti- efforts, we have endowed the positions of field, and we are delighted that he has prom- tution broad leadership experience that will Chief Curator and Curator of Decorative ised a significant gift of Meissen to the Frick. help us carry forward the Frick’s mission. Arts, and we are close to our goal of endow- (A selection of pieces from this promised In June we bid farewell to Colin B. Bailey, ing the Chief Conservator’s post. We were gift was featured in the inaugural exhibi- who assumed the position of Director of also successful in matching a challenge grant tion of the museum’s new Portico Gallery, Museums at the Fine Arts Museums of San from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2011.) The annual black-tie event raised Francisco. Colin joined the Frick in 2000 as to endow the Anne L. Poulet Curatorial nearly $1.1 million to support programs at Chief Curator and was named Peter Jay Sharp Fellows, renamed (from the Andrew W. both the Collection and the Library, includ- Chief Curator in 2007, Associate Director in Mellow Fellows) in honor of our Director ing education initiatives. Our second largest 2008, and Deputy Director in 2011. During Emerita. Under Lynne’s guidance the institu- annual fundraiser, the Young Fellows Ball, his tenure, the Curatorial Department car- tion has revitalized its membership program, drew six hundred guests and raised nearly ried out an ambitious program of more than and this year saw our membership reach an $270,000 for the museum’s education pro- sixty exhibitions on a wide range of subjects all-time high of more than 5,000 support- gram. The party’s theme, Dance of Time, was and media. In addition, Colin organized the ers. Lynne assembled a superb team in the Annual Report July 2012–June 2013 3 Development Department, which will carry exhibitions in the spring—Precision and (only seven), it was a huge popular and criti- on her work. We are fortunate to have ben- Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick cal success. For the first time in the institu- efited from her expertise and leadership. Collection; Piero della Francesca in America; tion’s history, the exhibition catalogue sold Late in the year, we were pleased to wel- and The Impressionist Line from Degas to out a month before the end of the show. With come Tia Chapman to the Frick, who suc- Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from a generous gift from the participants of the ceeds Lynne as Deputy Director for External the Clark—proved to be immensely popular Director’s Trip to Italy (fittingly called “Piero Affairs. Tia was previously the Director of with the public. Precision and Splendor, the and His World”), we were able to reprint the Major Gifts at the Metropolitan Opera. second show mounted in our recently con- catalogue, which arrived before the exhibi- After the record attendance of 2011–12, structed Portico Gallery, demonstrated the tion’s conclusion. we thought that the pace would slow down ways this new space expands our range and Educational programs launched initia- this year, assuming that an exhibition pro- adds vitality to our increasingly important tives that brought new audiences to the gram with fewer bold-face names might exhibition program. In May we saw the high- Frick. Teen Night attracted New York City not draw the same crowds we had experi- est attendance ever for that month, and this high school students to our galleries; The enced with our Picasso and Renoir exhibi- year’s attendance—more than 325,000 visi- Ayesha Bulchandani-Mathrani Internship tions. This turned out not to be the case. tors—was close to last year’s record number. Program established our first paid intern- Clearly, the reputation that the Frick has We are pleased to report that all of our ships; and Degas’s Dances contextualized built for the high quality of its exhibitions special exhibitions of the past twelve months Edgar Degas’ Rehearsal through a novel the- combined with the excellence of its pro- were fully funded by outside grants. Piero atrical and dance performance. grams and permanent collection keeps visi- della Francesca in America deserves special As we look back, we are grateful to tors returning again and again. Owing to mention, as it was born out of our Curatorial friends and supporters who have made the wonderful reviews in the press, little-known Fellows program, a program designed to successes of the past twelve months pos- artists such as Antico and Johann Christian encourage and promote the next generation sible. With your continued support, we look Neuber drew large crowds during the typi- of museum curators. Although a small show forward to exciting projects and initiatives in cally quiet summer months, and three in terms of the number of works displayed the years to come. Annual Report July 2012–June 2013 4 Frick’s former Deputy Director and Peter Jay January 23, 2013, and will remain on view in Report of the Senior Sharp Chief Curator, organized the exhibi- the Portico Gallery through March 9, 2014. Curator and Acting tion with Stephanie Buck, curator at The The exhibition provides visitors with the Courtauld Gallery, London, where the exhi- opportunity to view twenty-five clocks and Chief Curator bition was installed before traveling to the watches from the 1999 bequest of New York Susan Grace Galassi Frick.