Exhibitions
The Frick offers an exciting schedule of special exhibitions featuring art and artists from the Renaissance to the present.
View current, future, and past exhibitions below, or view our virtual exhibitions here.
View current, future, and past exhibitions below, or view our virtual exhibitions here.
Through January 30, 2022
Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement
In the second half of the 19th century, three generations of rebellious artists and designers revolutionized the visual arts in Britain by challenging the new industrial world around them, offering a radical artistic and social vision inspired by the pre-industrial past.
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Reckoning: Grief and Light
A multisensory installation of sculpture by Artist-in-Residence Vanessa German explores the capacity of museums to function as spaces of public reckoning. Three altarpieces created as an elegy to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, and other lives lost at the hands of police, accompanied by selections from a contemporary symphony inspired by the history of Africans enslaved on rice plantations, compose an immersive experience that offers a meditation on grief, love, and social healing.
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Permanent Collection
In the galleries at The Frick Art Museum you will find fabulous examples of early Renaissance Italian painting; rare French and Flemish tapestries; Renaissance and Baroque bronze statuettes; eighteenth-century French painting, furniture and decorative arts; spectacular Chinese porcelains; and masterpieces by artists such as Rubens, Boucher, Gainsborough, and Fragonard.
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April 30, 2022 - September 18, 2022
Romare Bearden: Artist as Activist and Visionary
This exhibition considers Romare Bearden (1911–1988) as an artist of social conscience and action. Drawing on his own experiences, Bearden created narratives that reflect both the nostalgic rural North Carolina of his childhood and the vibrant urban life of places like Pittsburgh and Harlem. His work layers themes from literature and religion with everyday rituals like family dinners to create visual stories that depict and celebrate African American subjects.
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March 6, 2021
Frida Kahlo—An Intimate Portrait: The Photographic Albums
This exhibition provides rare and moving insight into the personal life of one of the 20th century's most iconic artists. Through 115 photographs selected from her private albums, this exhibition allows us to see Kahlo through the eyes of friends, family, and other noted photographic artists.
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August 15, 2020 - September 5, 2021
Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces
A special installation at The Frick Art Museum presents Dutch contemporary artist Bouke de Vries' interpretation of an 18th-century tablescape with a sprawling assemblage of porcelain fragments resembling a nuclear wasteland. A former conservator of art objects, de Vries resurrects broken porcelain shards that would otherwise have been discarded and uses them to create new artworks that tackle both contemporary and historic issues.
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April 24, 2021 - November 28, 2021
Cast in Chrome: The Art of Hood Ornaments
Over the history of motoring, hood ornaments evolved from the practical (externally mounted radiator caps) to the purely decorative. Today, only a few luxury brands continue the tradition. Why were hood ornaments so popular and what led to their near demise?
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July 3, 2021 - September 26, 2021
Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
The first exhibition to explore the evolution of women's sporting attire in Western fashion, Sporting Fashion will look at the impact of new technologies and evolving social mores on women's clothing for sport, charting the cultural and material developments that allowed women to make their way outdoors.
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March 6, 2021 - May 9, 2021
Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray
Photographic portraits dating from 1937 to 1946 explore Muray's unique perspective as Kahlo's friend, lover, and confidant, while highlighting Kahlo's deep interest in her Mexican heritage, her life and travels, and the family and friends around her.
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May 12, 2021 - May 30, 2021
decolonizing: intimate family portraiture
Inspired by the personal photographs in Frida Kahlo—An Intimate Portrait, 13 women artists of the locally based #notwhite collective selected photographs from our their own family albums to create an intimate, collective portrait of themselves. Through their photos, they share experiences that bind them together—love, joy, family, loss—and express their unique cultural identities.
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November 8, 2020 - February 7, 2021
The Frick Reflects: Looking Back, Moving Forward
A critical look at The Frick Pittsburgh's permanent collection and institutional origin story, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Frick Art Museum and 30th anniversary of Clayton's restoration and public opening, this exhibition examines the social context in which the Frick family lived, the perspective with which Helen Clay Frick founded the organization, and the values and viewpoints the collection reveals, sometimes unwittingly.
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November 8, 2020
The Frick Reflects: Looking Back, Moving Forward
A critical look at The Frick Pittsburgh's permanent collection and institutional origin story, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the founding of The Frick Art Museum and 30th anniversary of Clayton's restoration and public opening, this exhibition examines the social context in which the Frick family lived, the perspective with which Helen Clay Frick founded the organization, and the values and viewpoints the collection reveals, sometimes unwittingly.
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August 15, 2020 - September 5, 2021
Bouke de Vries: War and Pieces
A special installation at The Frick Art Museum presents Dutch contemporary artist Bouke de Vries' interpretation of an 18th-century tablescape with a sprawling assemblage of porcelain fragments resembling a nuclear wasteland. A former conservator of art objects, de Vries resurrects broken porcelain shards that would otherwise have been discarded and uses them to create new artworks that tackle both contemporary and historic issues.
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February 15, 2020 - September 27, 2020
Maker and Muse: Women and Early Twentieth Century Art Jewelry
Featuring exquisite examples of beauty and craftsmanship by makers such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Charlotte Newman, Maker & Muse celebrates the impact of women on the innovative and imaginative jewelry of the early 1900s.
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October 19, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen
This exhibition, drawn from the collection at the Kent State University Museum, features a range of costumes and fashions instrumental in shaping some of the most memorable characters portrayed on stage or screen by acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), one of the most iconic stars of the 20th century.
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June 15, 2019
A Sporting Vision: The Paul Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Beginning in around 1700 and spanning more than 200 years, the enduring appeal and beauty of English country life is reflected in more than 80 paintings, including a special section devoted to the incomparable work of famed horse and animal painter George Stubbs (1724-1806).
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June 1, 2019 - November 3, 2019
The Hunt for a Seat: Sporting Carriages in the Early Twentieth Century
The Hunt for a Seat: Sporting Carriages in the Early Twentieth Century explores the unique characteristics, design and history of sporting-class vehicles. Planned to coincide with A Sporting Vision: The Mellon Collection of British Sporting Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art at The Frick Art Museum, this special installation includes four loaned carriages to supplement three in the Frick's collection and create a broader picture of the use of carriages for sport and recreation.
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February 9, 2019 - May 5, 2019
Street Photography to Surrealism: The Golden Age of Photography in France, 1900-1945
Visit the streets, flea markets, shops, dance halls, and after-hours demi-monde of Paris in this exhibition that explores one of the most fascinating and creative periods in photography.
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October 13, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper
Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave's marvelous paper costumes were on view at the Frick during the fall of 2018 as part of the artist's first touring retrospective exhibition.
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August 14, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Mrs. Peacock: A Gilded Age Portrait
An opulent example of Gilded Age portraiture, this full-length society portrait of Mrs. Irene M. Peacock was painted by Raimundo de Madrazo in 1902.
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October 19, 2019 - January 12, 2020
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen
This exhibition, drawn from the collection at the Kent State University Museum, features a range of costumes and fashions instrumental in shaping some of the most memorable characters portrayed on stage or screen by acclaimed actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), one of the most iconic stars of the 20th century.
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February 17, 2018
Revive, Remix, Respond: Contemporary Ceramic Artists and The Frick Pittsburgh
This exhibition brought an exciting group of works by contemporary ceramic artists to the Frick.
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July 7, 2018 - October 21, 2018
Driving the Disenfranchised: The Automobile's Role in Women's Suffrage
Discover the automobile's impact on increasing individual autonomy and heralding vast social changes in the 20th century.
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March 17, 2018 - July 15, 2018
Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The Frick Pittsburgh presented Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, an exhibition featuring more than 70 masterpieces collected by Pittsburgh-born collector and philanthropist, Paul Mellon (1907-1999), beginning in spring 2018.
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October 21, 2017 - January 14, 2018
Undressed: A History of Fashion in Underwear
This blockbuster exhibition presented the fascinating history of underwear design from the 18th century to the present.
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October 13, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper
Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave's marvelous paper costumes were on view at the Frick during the fall of 2018 as part of the artist's first touring retrospective exhibition.
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August 14, 2018 - March 31, 2019
Mrs. Peacock: A Gilded Age Portrait
An opulent example of Gilded Age portraiture, this full-length society portrait of Mrs. Irene M. Peacock was painted by Raimundo de Madrazo in 1902.
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April 15, 2017
Elise Adibi: Respiration Paintings
Nationally recognized contemporary artist Elise Adibi worked with the innate characteristics of the greenhouse, making use of the natural light, seasonal changes, and elevated humidity to both display and transform her artwork. A series of paintings installed to surround the viewer and coexist with the plants, Respiration Paintings explored the interconnection and intimate relationship between art, nature, and people.
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June 17, 2017 - September 10, 2017
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty
In a career that spanned seven decades, iconic American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009) created an enormous body of work. This retrospective featured the full range of his accomplishment in more than 140 photographs including early social realist images, glamorous fashion photographs, insightful portraits, still lifes, nudes, and his late work with found objects.
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October 29, 2016 - May 14, 2017
The Frick Collects: From Rubens to Monet
From Henry Clay Frick's early purchases, to his daughter Helen's collecting interests, through to the acquisitions that have been made by the museum in recent years, this exhibition told the story of The Frick Pittsburgh through its collection.
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October 21, 2017 - January 14, 2018
Undressed: A History of Fashion in Underwear
This blockbuster exhibition presented the fascinating history of underwear design from the 18th century to the present.
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June 11, 2016
Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe
Deadly sharp stilettos, architecturally inspired wedges and platforms, and a number of artfully crafted shoes that defy categorization were featured among the selection of nearly 160 historical and contemporary heels on loan from designers, the renowned Brooklyn Museum costume collection housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Bata Shoe Museum, and others.
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October 3, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at MEISSEN
The Frick presented Antemann's major works for Meissen, The Love Temple, and The Pleasure Garden (inspired by Fragonard's famous Progress of Love series) as well as a selection of smaller works, in the context of our permanent collection of 18th-century French art.
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February 6, 2015 - May 15, 2016
Fast Cars and Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue
The exhibition spans the years from 1907 to 1958 and reproductions of pages of his photo albums give insight into Lartigue's creative process and his acute observations of life.
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October 29, 2016 - May 14, 2017
The Frick Collects: From Rubens to Monet
From Henry Clay Frick's early purchases, to his daughter Helen's collecting interests, through to the acquisitions that have been made by the museum in recent years, this exhibition told the story of The Frick Pittsburgh through its collection.
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May 9, 2015
Rolling Hills, Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape
Drawn from the remarkable collections of the National Museum Wales, more than 60 works of art in this exhibition trace the development of landscape painting in Britain through the Industrial Revolution and the eras of Romanticism, Impressionism, and Modernism, to the postmodern and post-industrial imagery of today.
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February 21, 2015 - April 19, 2015
Impressionist to Modernist: Masterworks of Early Photography
Featuring an international group of artists,this exhibition captured, through more than 70 works, a pivotal time in the history of the development of the medium. Rare, hand-crafted-vintage prints made through a variety of processes illustrate some of the artistic choices open to the late-19th and early-20th century photographer, and chart the shift to prominence of the classic black and white (gelatin silver) print, which came to dominate photography in the 20th century.
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October 3, 2015 - January 10, 2016
Forbidden Fruit: Chris Antemann at MEISSEN
The Frick presented Antemann's major works for Meissen, The Love Temple, and The Pleasure Garden (inspired by Fragonard's famous Progress of Love series) as well as a selection of smaller works, in the context of our permanent collection of 18th-century French art.
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February 6, 2015 - May 15, 2016
Fast Cars and Femmes Fatales: The Photographs of Jacques Henri Lartigue
The exhibition spans the years from 1907 to 1958 and reproductions of pages of his photo albums give insight into Lartigue's creative process and his acute observations of life.
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November 1, 2014 - February 1, 2015
Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal
Henry Clay Frick purchased Curran's 1890 painting Woman with a Horse and Carriage, which typically hangs in the Clayton library. For this exhibition, our painting will join about 60 others as Curran's work travels to three North American venues (including The Frick Art Museum) in this first critical retrospective of his career since his death in 1942. The exhibition is organized by the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, and will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue.
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June 28, 2014
Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist: Works on Paper by the Artist and His Circle
This exhibition of more than 100 works on paper is built around a core group of 55 works by Degas, known as one of the strongest draftsmen of the Impressionist circle. From early drawings to late experiments in photography, the exhibition will illuminate the artist's personal life, his creative restlessness and experimentation, and his wider artistic circle.
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March 1, 2014 - May 25, 2014
The Warner Collection: An American Odyssey
This exciting exhibition features American artists from the nation's early years of independence through the dawn of the 20th century and includes major artists and movements from the Peale family and Gilbert Stuart to American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and Theodore Robinson, with beautiful Hudson River School works falling in between.
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July 13, 2014 - October 27, 2014
Clayton Days Revisited: A Project by Vik Muniz
In 1999 the Frick collaborated with contemporary artist Vik Muniz on a project that resulted in an exhibition of 65 photographs made on site and in the nearby environs of Pittsburgh. This exhibition marked the Frick's first venture into working with a living artist, and resulted in a significant body of work.
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November 1, 2014 - February 1, 2015
Charles Courtney Curran: Seeking the Ideal
Henry Clay Frick purchased Curran's 1890 painting Woman with a Horse and Carriage, which typically hangs in the Clayton library. For this exhibition, our painting will join about 60 others as Curran's work travels to three North American venues (including The Frick Art Museum) in this first critical retrospective of his career since his death in 1942. The exhibition is organized by the Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Memphis, and will be accompanied by a full-color catalogue.
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October 6, 2012
Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay
American artist Walter Gay (1856-1937) specialized in painting views of opulent residential interiors in late-19th and early-20th-century America and Europe. John Singer Sargent, Gay's nearly exact contemporary, is well known for painting the sumptuous clothing and jewels of American society in his fashionable portraits.
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February 23, 2013 - June 16, 2013
A Kind of Alchemy: Medieval Persian Ceramics
Produced for both the luxury and middle-class markets, these vessels, bowls, pitchers, and bottles reflect numerous cultural and artistic influences and an aesthetic sensibility that seems startlingly modern.
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October 6, 2012
Impressions of Interiors: Gilded Age Paintings by Walter Gay
American artist Walter Gay (1856-1937) specialized in painting views of opulent residential interiors in late-19th and early-20th-century America and Europe. John Singer Sargent, Gay's nearly exact contemporary, is well known for painting the sumptuous clothing and jewels of American society in his fashionable portraits.
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