Editing Frick Collection (section)

== History ==
{{For|a more detailed history of the house|Henry Clay Frick House#History}}
[[Henry Clay Frick]] was a [[Coke (fuel)|coke]] and steel magnate.<ref name="nyt-1919-12-03">{{Cite news |date=December 3, 1919 |title=Henry C. Frick Dies; Leaves Art to City; Pioneer in Steel and Coke Industry Stricken Suddenly By Heart Attack |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1919/12/03/archives/henry-c-frick-dies-leaves-art-to-city-pioneer-in-steel-and-coke.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/1919/12/03/archives/henry-c-frick-dies-leaves-art-to-city-pioneer-in-steel-and-coke.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bailey p. 10">{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=10}}</ref> As early as 1870, he had hung pictures throughout his house in [[Broadford, Pennsylvania]].<ref name="Bailey pp. 10–11">{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|pages=10–11}}</ref> Frick acquired the first painting in his permanent collection, Luis Jiménez's ''In the Louvre,'' in 1880,<ref name="Chapin 1971">{{cite news |last=Chapin |first=Louis |date=July 29, 1971 |title=Museum Treasure Hunt: the Frick Collection |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=6 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|511241270}}}}</ref> after moving to [[Pittsburgh]].<ref name="Bailey pp. 10–11" /> He did not begin buying paintings in large numbers until the mid-1890s,<ref name="Dobrzynski 1998 j766">{{cite web |last=Dobrzynski |first=Judith H. |date=October 19, 1998 |title=Mourning Became Frick as an Art Collector |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/arts/mourning-became-frick-as-an-art-collector.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212909/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/19/arts/mourning-became-frick-as-an-art-collector.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bailey p. 13">{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=13}}</ref> and he began devoting significant amounts of time to his collection.<ref name="The Christian Science Monitor 1931">{{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Frick Collection Belongs to Public |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=6 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513076875}}}}</ref> This made Frick one of several prominent American businessmen who also collected art, along with figures such as [[Henry Havemeyer]] and [[J. P. Morgan]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Raynor |first=Vivien |date=December 13, 1987 |title=Art; Jersey City: Early Collector's Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/nyregion/art-jersey-city-early-collector-s-collection.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203231321/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/13/nyregion/art-jersey-city-early-collector-s-collection.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In explaining why he collected art, Frick said, "I can make money... I cannot make pictures."<ref name="Maeder 1999" /> He curated his collection with the help of [[Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen]].<ref name="Lambert 1999">{{Cite news |last=Lambert |first=Richard |date=January 9, 1999 |title=The robber baron's gift: Why did coke king Henry Frick leave his art collection to the US nation? asks Richard Lambert |work=Financial Times |page=5 |id={{ProQuest|248753901}}}}</ref><ref name="Fabrikant 2008 p045">{{cite web |last=Fabrikant |first=Geraldine |date=March 12, 2008 |title=Re-Enter the Gilded Age |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12rooms.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195815/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12rooms.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

When the Frick family moved from Pittsburgh to New York City in 1905, they leased the [[William H. Vanderbilt House]] at 640 [[Fifth Avenue]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 22, 1905 |title=Gets Vanderbilt Twin House? |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85718243/gets-vanderbilt-twin-house/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926120735/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85718243/gets-vanderbilt-twin-house/ |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |access-date=September 21, 2021 |work=The Sun |page=1}}</ref><ref name="Maeder 1999">{{Cite news |last=Maeder |first=Jay |date=February 25, 1999 |title=American Sepulchral: Henry Clay Frick |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-american-sepulchral-henry-cl/140331240/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=506 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205214026/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-american-sepulchral-henry-cl/140331240/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and Frick expanded his collection during that time.<ref name="Gutkowski">{{cite journal |last=Gutkowski |first=Melanie Linn |date=Spring 2012 |title=Aspiration and Obsession; Henry Clay Frick and the W.H. Vanderbilt House and Collection |url=https://archive.org/details/19thCenturySpring2012 |journal=19th Century |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=29–30 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Quodbach |first=Esmee |date=November 1, 2009 |title='I want this collection to be my monument': Henry Clay Frick and the formation of The Frick Collection |url=https://academic.oup.com/jhc/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |journal=Journal of the History of Collections  |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=229–240 |doi=10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |issn=0954-6650 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=February 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202114916/https://academic.oup.com/jhc/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/jhc/fhp008 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The collection was spread across their homes in New York, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.<ref name="Shaw 2007">{{Cite news |last=Shaw |first=Kurt |date=October 28, 2007 |title=Frick legacy: Book examines life of industrialist's daughter |work=Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |id={{ProQuest|382473031}}}}</ref> [[Thomas Hastings (architect)|Thomas Hastings]] of [[Carrère and Hastings]] designed Frick's permanent house at [[Henry Clay Frick House|1 East 70th Street]],<ref name="Skrabec 2014 p. 210">{{harvnb|ps=.|Skrabec, Jr. |2014|page=210}}</ref> which was completed in 1914.<ref name="nyt-2014-11-14">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=November 14, 2014 |title=The Garden at the Frick, and How It Grew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The house had been designed with the collection in mind.<ref name="Maeder 1999" />  [[James Howard Bridge]], Frick's personal assistant, was hired as the house's curator in 1914 and worked at the house for fourteen years.<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1931">{{cite news |date=October 6, 1931 |title=Frick Art Listed Among World's Best Collections: Outstanding Private Accumulation Housed in Perfect Gallery, Experts Agree |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=27 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114140415}}}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1932 o394">{{cite web |date=February 21, 1932 |title=Helen C. Frick Sued by Ex-curator, 73; James H. Bridge Says Daughter of Capitalist Slandered Reputation as Art Specialist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/21/archives/helen-cfrick-sued-by-excurator-73-james-h-bridge-says-daughter-of.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225002/https://www.nytimes.com/1932/02/21/archives/helen-cfrick-sued-by-excurator-73-james-h-bridge-says-daughter-of.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Frick, who was known for being especially particular in his tastes,<ref name="Gray 2010 q262">{{cite web |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=April 29, 2010 |title=The Frick and Other Grand Private Galleries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/realestate/02streetscapes.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126122632/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/realestate/02streetscapes.html |url-status=live}}</ref> spent an estimated $10 million to acquire pieces during his lifetime.<ref name="Boston Daily Globe 1919">{{cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=Masterpieces Left by Frick to Be Given to the Public |work=Boston Daily Globe |page=E5 |id={{ProQuest|503844676}}}}</ref> Duveen opened four art-purchasing accounts for Frick, including two accounts specifically for art from Morgan's estate.<ref name="Bailey p. 76">{{harvnb|Bailey|2006|ps=.|page=76}}</ref>

=== Creation ===

==== Establishment of Frick Collection Inc. ====
[[File:Frickmusjeh.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.3|alt=The Henry Clay Frick House as seen from across Fifth Avenue|When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed the [[Henry Clay Frick House]] on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.]]
Frick died in 1919 at the age of 69, bequeathing the house as a public museum for his art collection.<ref name="nyt-1919-12-03" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 3, 1919 |title=Henry Clay Frick, Pioneer Iron Master and Famous Art Collector, Passes Away |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-henry-clay-frick-pionee/139832346/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Buffalo Courier |pages=1 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.newspapers.com/article/buffalo-courier-henry-clay-frick-pionee/139832346/ |url-status=live}}</ref> His widow [[Adelaide Howard Childs Frick]] continued living in the mansion with her daughter [[Helen Clay Frick|Helen]];<ref name="Newsweek 1935">{{cite magazine |date=December 14, 1935 |title=Art: Elaborately Guarded Frick Collection Open After 16 Years |magazine=Newsweek |page=19 |volume=6 |issue=24 |id={{ProQuest|1796842053}}}}</ref> if Adelaide died or moved away, the house would be converted to a public museum.<ref name="Times Union 1919">{{Cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=$136,000,000 Left by Frick |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-136000000-left-by-frick/139832798/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Times Union |pages=1 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204742/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-136000000-left-by-frick/139832798/ |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=December 7, 1919 |title=$65,000,000 for New York Art Gallery |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832659/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832710/ 13] |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204744/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-65000000-for-new-yor/139832659/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Andre 1999">{{cite news |last=Andre |first=Mila |date=December 17, 1999 |title=Museo Drive |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |page=97 |id={{ProQuest|313742866}}}}</ref> At the time, the collection alone was worth $30 million,<ref name="The New York Times 1921 w450">{{cite web |date=May 28, 1921 |title=Frick Art Values Shrink $17,000,000; Collection Originally Estimated at $30,000,000 Appraised in 1919 at $13,000,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/28/archives/frick-art-values-shrink-17000000-collection-originally-estimated-at.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211651/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/05/28/archives/frick-art-values-shrink-17000000-collection-originally-estimated-at.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=May 28, 1921 |title=Value of Frick's Art Collection Shrinks Over 50% |work=Chicago Daily Tribune |page=1 |issn=1085-6706 |id={{ProQuest|174841032}}}}</ref> and Frick also provided a $15 million endowment for the maintenance of the collection.<ref name="Times Union 1919" /> Nine people, including Adelaide, Helen, and Helen's brother [[Childs Frick|Childs]], were named as trustees of his estate;<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1931a">{{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Art Fortune Goes to Public By Death of Mrs. H. C. Frick: Fifth Avenue Mansion and Collection of Old Masters, Valued Up to $30,000,000, May Become Museum Under Steel Man's Will |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114223395}}}}</ref> Childs served as the head of the Frick estate's board of trustees until his death in 1965.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 10, 1965 |title=Childs Frick, 81, Art Patron, Managed Frick Collection |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=34 |id={{ProQuest|915250229}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=May 10, 1965 |title=Childs Frick Dies; Paleontologist: Millionaire Museum Aide Headed Art Collection |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=33 |id={{ProQuest|116840755}}}}</ref> Per the terms of Frick's will, the trustees moved to incorporate Frick's art collection in April 1920, submitting [[articles of incorporation]] to the New York state government.<ref name="The New York Times 1920 p230">{{cite web |date=April 8, 1920 |title=Frick Collection Plans; Incorporation Sought in Order to Carry Out Provisions of Will. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1920/04/08/archives/frick-collection-plans-incorporation-sought-in-order-to-carry-out.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.nytimes.com/1920/04/08/archives/frick-collection-plans-incorporation-sought-in-order-to-carry-out.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=April 8, 1920 |title=Bill Incorporates Frick Collection |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-bill-incorporates-frick/139836783/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=3 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211651/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-bill-incorporates-frick/139836783/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick Collection Inc. was incorporated that month.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 15, 1920 |title=Frick Art Collection Is Incorporated |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-frick-art-collect/139835814/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Press and Sun-Bulletin |pages=3 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.newspapers.com/article/press-and-sun-bulletin-frick-art-collect/139835814/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The New York and Pennsylvania state governments fought over which government should collect taxes from Frick's estate.<ref name="The New York Times 1921 t342">{{cite web |date=June 15, 1921 |title=2 States Fight to Set Big Frick Estate Tax; Surrogate Reserves Decision on Application to Have Financier Declared New York Resident. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1921/06/15/archives/2-states-fight-to-set-big-frick-estate-tax-surrogate-reserves.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211652/https://www.nytimes.com/1921/06/15/archives/2-states-fight-to-set-big-frick-estate-tax-surrogate-reserves.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Amid this dispute, the collection was reassessed at $13 million in 1921;<ref name="The New York Times 1921 w450" /> this figure was repeated in a revised appraisal of Frick's estate that was filed with the New York state government in 1923.<ref name="The New York Times 1923 v253">{{cite web |date=March 2, 1923 |title=$92,953,552 Total H. C. Frick Estate; Only $20,932,905 of Realty and Personal Property Is Tax- able in New York. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/02/archives/92953552-total-hc-frick-estate-only-20932905-of-realty-and-personal.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129211653/https://www.nytimes.com/1923/03/02/archives/92953552-total-hc-frick-estate-only-20932905-of-realty-and-personal.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Meanwhile, Helen Frick studied plans for the [[Witt Library]] in London in the early 1920s, as she wanted to create a library for Frick's personal collection.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grant |first=Jane |date=August 14, 1921 |title=Society Oracle |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-times-society-oracle/139838196/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The Buffalo Times |pages=39 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221003/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-buffalo-times-society-oracle/139838196/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Helen catalogued most of the collection over the next decade.<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1931a" /> The [[Frick Art Research Library]], originally named the Frick Art Reference Library, was organized at the mansion after Frick's death,<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 23, 1922 |title=Henry Clay Frick Reference Library Nearing Completion: Collection Ultimately Will Contain Photographic Reproduction of Ancient and Modern Art Works |work=St. Louis Post – Dispatch |page=18 |id={{ProQuest|578830122}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=February 23, 1922 |title=Frick Library Gives Key to World's Art |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-library-gives-key/139833125/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=New York Herald |pages=11 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204743/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-herald-frick-library-gives-key/139833125/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and a dedicated library building opened the next year.<ref name="Howell 1951 pp. 123–126" /> During the 1920s, the library added thousands of volumes and photographs to its holdings.<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1931" /><ref>{{cite news |date=July 29, 1927 |title=Histories of Family Portraits Sought by Frick Art Library: Home of Great Collection of Portrait Photographs A Secluded Place to Study |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=5B |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|512180943}}}}</ref> Over the years, four additional trustees had to be appointed after their predecessors died.<ref name="Newsweek 1935" />

==== Opening of museum ====
After Adelaide Frick's death in October 1931, the trustees were finally allowed to open the house to the public;<ref name="The New York Times 1931 x3562">{{cite web |date=October 9, 1931 |title=Mrs. Frick Estate Goes to Children; Son and Daughter Divide Bulk of $6,000,000 in Will Filed at Pittsburgh |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/09/archives/mrs-frick-estate-goes-to-children-son-and-daughter-divide-bulk-of.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129221003/https://www.nytimes.com/1931/10/09/archives/mrs-frick-estate-goes-to-children-son-and-daughter-divide-bulk-of.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=October 5, 1931 |title=Death of Mrs. Frick Gives Art Gallery to New York: Collection and House Containing it, Valued at $50,000,000 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=1 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|150128901}}}}</ref> they announced in January 1933 that the collection would likely open to the public within a year.<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1933">{{cite news |date=January 19, 1933 |title=Frick Art Collection Will Be Put On Public Display Within Year: $2,000,000 5th Ave. Chateau Housing Treasures To Be Made a Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221650499}}}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1933 s798">{{cite web |date=January 19, 1933 |title=Public to Receive Frick Art in Fall; Trustees of His $50,000,000 Collection Will Open Centre in Fifth Avenue Home |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/19/archives/public-to-receive-frick-art-in-fall-trustees-of-his-50000000.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225000/https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/19/archives/public-to-receive-frick-art-in-fall-trustees-of-his-50000000.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[John Russell Pope]] was hired to alter and enlarge the house.<ref name="nycland">{{cite nycland |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=AwYcSFtdE_AC&pg=PA163 162–163]}}</ref> [[Frederick Mortimer Clapp]], who had joined the Frick Collection as an advisor in 1931,<ref name="nyt-1969-12-17">{{Cite news |last=Horsley |first=Carter B. |date=December 17, 1969 |title=Frederick Clapp of Frick Museum; Founding Director, 90, Dies – Organized Art Treasure |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/17/archives/frederick-clapp-of-frick-museum-founding-director-90-dies-organized.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/17/archives/frederick-clapp-of-frick-museum-founding-director-90-dies-organized.html |url-status=live}}</ref> was hired as the museum's first director.<ref name="The New York Times 1933 s798" /><ref name="Bailey p. 99">{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|page=99}}</ref> Work on the mansion began in December 1933.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 3, 1933 |title=Frick Mansion To Be Altered Into Museum: Workmen Already Busy Remodeling House at 5th Av. and 71st St. for Art |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1114674666}}}}</ref> A new library wing was constructed on 71st Street to replace the original library.<ref name="The New York Times 1934 c417">{{cite web |date=July 1, 1934 |title=New Frick Library to Open in October; Structure in 71st Street Will Contain Noted Collection of Art Photographs. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/07/01/archives/new-frick-library-to-open-in-october-structure-in-71st-street-will.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225004/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/07/01/archives/new-frick-library-to-open-in-october-structure-in-71st-street-will.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Other modifications included a new storage vault and renovations of the Frick family's living space.<ref name="Rhodenbaugh 1935">{{cite news |last=Rhodenbaugh |first=Harold |date=December 15, 1935 |title=$50,000,000 Frick Art Collection Opens to Public View Tomorrow in New York: His Mansion Is Converted Into Museum Cultural World Eager to See Fabulous Works of Masters. Death of Industrial Titan's Widow Permits Release of Legacy. |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=SS5 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|150577112}}}}</ref> The museum's opening, originally scheduled for 1934, was postponed because of the complexity of the construction project.<ref name="The New York Times 1934 f332">{{cite web |date=February 22, 1934 |title=Frick Art Showing Delayed Till Fall; Unexpected Difficulties Are Met in Turning Residence Into Public Gallery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/22/archives/frick-art-showing-delayed-till-fall-unexpected-difficulties-are-met.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225003/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/02/22/archives/frick-art-showing-delayed-till-fall-unexpected-difficulties-are-met.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>  The Frick estate also sued the city government in 1935 to obtain a property-tax exemption for the museum,<ref>{{cite news |date=June 18, 1935 |title=Frick Gallery Sues for City Tax Exemption: Asks Court to Void 5 Million Assessment on Plea Art Was Willed to Public Library Is Included Justice Walsh Sets Sept. 30 for Hearing of Plea |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221591498}}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 18, 1935 |title=Frick Art Gallery Asks Tax Exemption; Fights $5,000,000 Assessment and Gets Order for Review – University Club Acts, Too. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/06/18/archives/frick-art-gallery-asks-tax-exemption-fights-5000000-assessment-and.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201014800/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/06/18/archives/frick-art-gallery-asks-tax-exemption-fights-5000000-assessment-and.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and the taxes were waived the next year, as the Frick Collection was a public museum.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 22, 1936 |title=Tax Exemption On the Morgan Library Ended: $12,000,000 Collection of Art and Books Not Open to the Public, City Rules $48,000 Already Due Frick Gallery Need Not Pay Levies, Windels Holds |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1237440297}}}}</ref>[[File:Frick Art Reference Library - interior.jpg|thumb|alt=View of the Frick Art Research Library's interior|The Frick Art Research Library reopened in 1935.]]

When the rebuilt library opened in January 1935,<ref name="The New York Times 1935 d548">{{cite web |date=January 15, 1935 |title=New Frick Library Opened to Students; Art Reference Centre Resumes Service After Moving Into $850,000 Building. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/15/archives/new-frick-library-opened-to-students-art-reference-centre-resumes.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225002/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/15/archives/new-frick-library-opened-to-students-art-reference-centre-resumes.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=January 6, 1935 |title=Frick Library Of Art Opens in Its New Home: Pre-View Held in 7-Story Building Housing 200,000 Pictorial Reproductions Adjoins Site of Gallery $50,000,000 Collection To Be on Exhibition Soon Views of the Imposing New Frick Art Reference Library |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=25 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1223551353}}}}</ref> it had 200,000 photographs, 18,000 catalogs of art sales, and 45,000 books.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Art: Helen Clay Frick Opens Home for Her Hobby |magazine=Newsweek |volume=5 |issue=2 |date=January 12, 1935 |pages=26–27 |id={{ProQuest|1797093787}}}}</ref> The museum itself had a [[soft opening]] on December 11, 1935;<ref name="The New York Times 1935 s753">{{cite web |date=December 12, 1935 |title=700 See Treasures of Frick Gallery; Steelmaker's Mansion Begins Career as Museum With Preview to Guests |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/700-see-treasures-of-frick-gallery-steelmakers-mansion-begins.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129224959/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/12/archives/700-see-treasures-of-frick-gallery-steelmakers-mansion-begins.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=December 12, 1935 |title=Frick Gallery Of Art Opens With 700 at Its Preview: Vast Treasure, Centered on 136 Master Paintings, Becomes Accessible to Public Monday Donor's Children Receive the Guests Collection's Purchase of Morgan Painting Made Known; Value of Works Is Called $50,000,000 |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1221727004}}}}</ref> the preview was noteworthy enough that the names of 700 visitors were published in that day's ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]''.<ref name="Charleston Daily Mail 2010">{{cite news |date=June 17, 2010 |title=Frick museum celebrates its 75th birthday:: Art museum welcomes 300,000 visitors annually |work=Charleston Daily Mail |page=D.6 |id={{ProQuest|506235636}} |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The Frick Collection officially opened to the public five days later on December 16.<ref name="The New York Times 1935 r493">{{cite web |date=December 17, 1935 |title=Frick Art Museum Opened to Public; 750 View Superb Collection in Former Home of Donor – Same Number to See It Daily. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/17/archives/frick-art-museum-opened-to-public-750-view-superb-collection-in.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129225001/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/17/archives/frick-art-museum-opened-to-public-750-view-superb-collection-in.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=December 17, 1935 |title=Frick Museum Opens to Public As 700 See Art: Director Calls First Day a Success; Lecture Tour Is Planned for Visitors |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=21 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1242909040}}}}</ref> When it opened, the museum did not charge admission fees,<ref name="Newsweek 1935" /><ref name="nyt-1935-12-22">{{Cite news |date=December 22, 1935 |title=5,000 In First Week See Frick Collection; Attendance at Museum Averaged 830 With All Requests Filled Except for Yesterday. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/22/archives/5000-in-first-week-see-frick-collection-attendance-at-museum.html |access-date=January 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |postscript=none |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131020121/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/22/archives/5000-in-first-week-see-frick-collection-attendance-at-museum.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1266817851}} |title=5,000 See Frick Collection |date=December 22, 1935 |page=17A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646}}</ref> but staff distributed timed-entry tickets to prevent crowding.<ref name="Newsweek 1935" /><ref name="Rhodenbaugh 1935" /><ref name="The Christian Science Monitor 1935">{{cite news |date=December 12, 1935 |title=Canvases of Masters Viewed At Opening of Frick Gallery: Fifth Avenue Mansion Becomes Art Center |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=15 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513922219}}}}</ref> Although about 600 tickets were distributed daily to people who showed up in person,<ref name="Sherburne 1936">{{cite news |last=Sherburne |first=Ernest C. |date=February 12, 1936 |title=The Frick Collection: Like the Wallace Collection in London, Which Henry Clay Frick Regarded as a Model, the New Museum in New York Uses the Family Residence to House Some Rare Treasures .. The Frick Collection: A Gallery of Treasures |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=WM8 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|513933607}}}}</ref> other visitors had to make reservations several weeks in advance due to high demand.<ref name="Newsweek 1935" /><ref name="Rhodenbaugh 1935" /> Ropes were placed throughout the house to force visitors to follow a specific path.<ref name="Newsweek 1935" /> The galleries were originally closed on holidays, Sundays, and for a month in the middle of the year.<ref name="Sherburne 1936" /> Artworks were arranged based on how they blended in with the house's ambiance, rather than being arranged by year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 2, 1964 |title=New York Full of Treasures |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-statesman-new-york-full-of-tr/139714760/ |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The Herald Statesman |pages=9 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203235713/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-herald-statesman-new-york-full-of-tr/139714760/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1930s to 1960s ===
Within a year of the museum's opening, demand had declined enough that officials decided to scale down, and then eliminate, its timed-entry ticketing system.<ref name="nyt-1937-01-31">{{Cite news |date=January 31, 1937 |title=Frick Gallery Drew 135,523 Last Year; Report Shows an Average of 460 Visitors Daily to Art Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/31/archives/frick-gallery-drew-135523-last-year-report-shows-an-average-of-460.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201034420/https://www.nytimes.com/1937/01/31/archives/frick-gallery-drew-135523-last-year-report-shows-an-average-of-460.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The ropes throughout the house were taken down, and visitors were allowed to visit the Frick House's rooms in any order.<ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1937">{{cite news |date=November 23, 1937 |title=Frick Collection Buys David Work |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1240614945}}}}</ref><ref name="Bailey p. 109">{{harvnb|ps=.|Bailey|2006|page=109}}</ref> Museum officials also presented lectures five days a week during the late 1930s,<ref name="nyt-1937-01-31" /><ref name="New York Herald Tribune 1937" /> and they started hosting afternoon concert series in November 1938;<ref name="Bailey p. 109" /><ref>{{cite news |date=November 3, 1938 |title=Frick Collection Lists Chamber Music Series |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=17 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1313535243}}}}</ref> these concerts and lectures continued throughout Clapp's tenure at the museum.<ref name="nyt-1969-12-17" /> Clapp also obtained fresh flowers each day and placed them in the first-floor galleries for esthetic purposes.<ref name="nyt-1969-12-17" /> Three magnolia trees were planted on the grounds in 1939.<ref name="The Frick Collection 2020 a388">{{cite web |date=August 5, 2020 |title=Magnolias |url=https://www.frick.org/about/gardens/magnolias |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The Frick Collection |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201173908/https://www.frick.org/about/gardens/magnolias |url-status=live}}</ref> To expand their land holdings, museum officials bought a neighboring townhouse at 9 East 70th Street in 1940<ref name="The New York Times 1940 j947">{{cite web |date=November 15, 1940 |title=Frick Collection Buys Home Near Art Gallery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/15/archives/frick-collection-buys-home-near-art-gallery.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1940/11/15/archives/frick-collection-buys-home-near-art-gallery.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and used that building as storage space.<ref name="nyt-1973-06-15">{{Cite news |last=Horsley |first=Carter B. |date=June 15, 1973 |title=Frick Plans Garden on Widener Site |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/15/archives/frick-plans-garden-on-widener-site-building-designed-in-13-two.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201745/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/15/archives/frick-plans-garden-on-widener-site-building-designed-in-13-two.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Museum officials constructed a vault in 1941 to protect the artwork from [[Airstrike|air raids]].<ref name="The New York Times 1941 d452">{{cite web |date=December 13, 1941 |title=Frick Art Works Prepared for Raids; Concrete and Steel Underground Chamber Being Built |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/13/archives/frick-art-works-prepared-for-raids-concrete-and-steel-underground.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/13/archives/frick-art-works-prepared-for-raids-concrete-and-steel-underground.html |url-status=live}}</ref> During World War II, the museum continued to host visitors, but some rooms were closed,<ref name="The New York Times 1942 a251">{{cite web |last=Jewell |first=Edward Alden |date=August 9, 1942 |title=Changes at the Frick; Some Works Withdrawn as a Wartime Precaution, but Much of Interest Remains |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/08/09/archives/changes-at-the-frick-some-works-withdrawn-as-a-wartime-precaution.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1942/08/09/archives/changes-at-the-frick-some-works-withdrawn-as-a-wartime-precaution.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and more than five dozen paintings and all of the sculptures were moved into storage.<ref name="The New York Times 1944 n913">{{cite web |date=February 2, 1944 |title=Frick Collection Buys Rare Statue; Bronze Angel That Stood for Many Years in the Morgan Library Is Privately Sold |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/02/archives/frick-collection-buys-rare-statue-bronze-angel-that-stood-for-many.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=August 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806213844/https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/02/archives/frick-collection-buys-rare-statue-bronze-angel-that-stood-for-many.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Museum officials took these pieces out of storage in May 1945 and restored them; other artworks in the house were rearranged and cleaned as well.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 6, 1945 |title=At the Frick |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=X2 |id={{ProQuest|107109857}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=May 6, 1945 |title=Frick Paintings Removed From War Hide-Away: 70 of Collection's Fines Were Kept in Rock Vault a Step From the Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1267958057}}}}</ref> The Frick acquired another townhouse at 7 East 70th Street in 1947<ref>{{cite news |date=January 24, 1947 |title=Frick Collection Buys Town House: Adds the 37-room James Residence on 70th St. To Adjacent Holdings |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |page=35 |id={{ProQuest|107865374}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |date=January 24, 1947 |title=Frick Interests Take Dwelling In East 70th St: Collection Acquires James Residence of 37 Rooms: Former Taylor Home Sold |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=25A |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1291278526}}}}</ref> and replaced it with a service wing.<ref name="nyt-1973-06-15" /> By the late 1940s, the museum had cumulatively spent about $2.9 million in acquisitions since Frick's death.<ref name="The New York Times 1948 c929">{{cite web |date=May 1, 1948 |title=Decision Reserved in Frick Gift Case; Action Brought to Determine Trustees' Right to Accept Donations to Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/05/01/archives/decision-reserved-in-frick-gift-case-action-brought-to-determine.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/1948/05/01/archives/decision-reserved-in-frick-gift-case-action-brought-to-determine.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=May 1, 1948 |title=Miss Frick Tells Father's View of Art Collection: Testifies He Was To Sole Benefactor; Rockefeller Gift Put at $1,700,000 |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=9 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327360882}}}}</ref> When [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]] offered to donate several pieces of artwork in 1948, Helen Frick objected, arguing that the museum only accepted gifts from Frick family members.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 30, 1948 |title=Philanthropists Lock Horns Over Gift to Frick Collection |work=Los Angeles Times |page=1 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|165792667}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Beckley |first=Paul |date=January 30, 1948 |title=Frick Trustees Seek Court Rule On Gifts of Art: Miss Helen Frick Opposes Addition of Rockefeller Paintings to Collection |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=16 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327379027}}}}</ref> In the lawsuit that followed, a [[New York Supreme Court]] judge ruled that the terms of Frick's will did not prevent the museum from accepting external gifts;<ref name="The New York Times 1948 r487">{{cite web |date=July 13, 1948 |title=Court Opens Way to Frick Art Gifts; Daughter Loses Fight to Bar Rockefeller Donation of Six Paintings Worth $1,700,000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/13/archives/court-opens-way-to-frick-art-gifts-daughter-loses-fight-to-bar.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192414/https://www.nytimes.com/1948/07/13/archives/court-opens-way-to-frick-art-gifts-daughter-loses-fight-to-bar.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=July 13, 1948 |title=Frick Trustees Can Accept Gift Of Rockefeller: Court Denies Contention of Founder's Daughter Will Bars Outside Donations |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=1 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326817880}}}}</ref> the court's [[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division|Appellate Division]] upheld this ruling.<ref name="The New York Times 1949 c422">{{cite web |date=February 2, 1949 |title=Frick Art Expansion Sustained on Appeal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/02/archives/frick-art-expansion-sustained-on-appeal.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194205/https://www.nytimes.com/1949/02/02/archives/frick-art-expansion-sustained-on-appeal.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=February 2, 1949 |title=Frick Museum Is Upheld In Accepting Outside Gifts |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=19 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326781127}}}}</ref> Rockefeller, who had been on the board of trustees, resigned amid the dispute.<ref name="Maeder 1999" />

Clapp resigned in 1951 and was replaced by the museum's assistant director [[Franklin M. Biebel]].<ref name="The New York Times 1951 o611">{{cite web |date=January 15, 1951 |title=Biebel is New Head of Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/15/archives/biebel-is-new-head-of-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194205/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/01/15/archives/biebel-is-new-head-of-frick-collection.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |date=January 15, 1951 |title=Clapp Resigns As Director of Frick Museum |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=24 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1322417302}}}}</ref> Biebel established a decorative-arts conservation program, and the number of annual visitors nearly doubled under his tenure.<ref name="nyt-1966-09-24">{{Cite news |date=September 24, 1966 |title=Franklin Biebel of the Frick Dies; Directed Art Collection Left by Steel Magnate 13 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/franklin-biebel-of-the-frick-dies-directed-art-collection-left-by.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/09/24/archives/franklin-biebel-of-the-frick-dies-directed-art-collection-left-by.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The museum's collection remained largely unchanged over the next several years, as Helen Frick opposed any expansions, saying that her father would not have wanted items to be added.<ref>{{cite news |last=Folliard |first=Edward T. |date=March 12, 1961 |title=Mellon Treasure House Marking 20th Year |work=The Washington Post, Times Herald |page=G1 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|141304086}}}}</ref> Helen resigned from the museum's board of trustees in 1961,<ref name="Sheets g765">{{cite web |last=Sheets |first=Hilarie M. |date=March 20, 2025 |title=Discover the Story Behind the Reimagined Frick Collection in New York |url=https://galeriemagazine.com/frick-collection-renovation |access-date=March 22, 2025 |website=Galerie Magazine}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1961 c155" /> after the board finally voted to accept Rockefeller's gift.<ref name="The New York Times 1961 c155">{{cite web |date=January 19, 1961 |title=Miss Frick Moves to Quit Museum; Daughter of Founder Seeks to Resign Over Acceptance of Rockefeller Bequest |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/19/archives/miss-frick-moves-to-quit-museum-daughter-of-founder-seeks-to-resign.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214848/https://www.nytimes.com/1961/01/19/archives/miss-frick-moves-to-quit-museum-daughter-of-founder-seeks-to-resign.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |last=Sugrue |first=Francis |date=January 18, 1961 |title=Frick's Daughter Quits Museum Post Over Acceptance of Rockefeller Art: She Takes Action in Letter to the Herald Tribune |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=21 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326058910}}}}</ref> Assistant director [[Harry D. M. Grier]] replaced Biebel, becoming the museum's third director in 1964.<ref name="The New York Times 1964 n066">{{cite web |date=June 5, 1964 |title=Harry Grier is Appointed Frick Collection's Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/05/archives/harry-grier-is-appointed-frick-collections-director.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214849/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/05/archives/harry-grier-is-appointed-frick-collections-director.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By the mid-1960s, the Frick had 160 portraits, 80 sculptures, and various other items in its collection. The Frick was open six days a week (except in August, when it was closed) and was still free to enter.<ref name="The Christian Science Monitor 1963">{{cite news |date=June 7, 1963 |title=N.Y. Gives Museum Buffs a Break: Class by Itself |work=The Christian Science Monitor |page=7 |issn=0882-7729 |id={{ProQuest|510495844}}}}</ref> The collection was small compared to that of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], which at the time had 365,000 items.<ref name="The Christian Science Monitor 1963" /> [[Edgar Munhall]] was hired as the museum's first chief curator in 1965, a position he would hold for thirty-five years.<ref name="Roberts 2016 t791">{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=October 21, 2016 |title=Edgar Munhall, First Curator of the Frick Collection, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/edgar-munhall-first-curator-of-the-frick-collection-dies-at-83.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195817/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/arts/design/edgar-munhall-first-curator-of-the-frick-collection-dies-at-83.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=October 22, 2016 |title=Edgar Munhall, 83, first curator of the Frick Collection |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2016/10/22/edgar-munhall-first-curator-frick-collection/mZuqp3cigy9s9Xr5TRa3hJ/story.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The Boston Globe |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195816/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2016/10/22/edgar-munhall-first-curator-frick-collection/mZuqp3cigy9s9Xr5TRa3hJ/story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> As part of a master plan in 1967,<ref name="Iovine 2014">{{Cite news |last=Iovine |first=Julie V. |date=December 17, 2014 |title=In Defense of the Frick |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-the-frick-1418772142 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=D.5  |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|1636584902}} |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005742/https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-the-frick-1418772142 |url-status=live}}</ref> the Frick's trustees drew up plans for an annex at 7 and 9 East 70th Street.<ref name="nyt-2014-11-142">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=November 14, 2014 |title=The Garden at the Frick, and How It Grew |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/realestate/the-garden-at-the-frick-and-how-it-grew.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1970s to 1990s ===
[[File:Frick Collection New York entrée.jpg|thumb|Entrance to the Frick Collection]]
By the early 1970s, the museum recorded about 800 daily visitors<ref name="Glueck 1970 o477">{{cite web |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=April 29, 1970 |title=With Minimum of Fanfare, Frick Collection Turns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/29/archives/with-minimum-of-fanfare-frick-collection-turns-50.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214848/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/04/29/archives/with-minimum-of-fanfare-frick-collection-turns-50.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and employed 75 staff members.<ref name="Glueck 1970 o477" /><ref name="Nadel 1970" /> The next year, the museum began asking visitors to pay an optional admission fee due to rising taxes and expenses.<ref name="nyt-1971-07-07">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=July 7, 1971 |title=Frick Collection Seeks to Stave Off Tax |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/07/archives/frick-collection-seeks-to-stave-off-tax.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201746/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/07/archives/frick-collection-seeks-to-stave-off-tax.html |url-status=live}}</ref> After Grier was killed in a traffic accident in 1972,<ref name="nyt-1972-06-01">{{Cite news |date=June 1, 1972 |title=Harry D. M. Grier of Frick Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/01/archives/harry-d-m-grier-of-frick-museum-collections-director-since-64.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/06/01/archives/harry-d-m-grier-of-frick-museum-collections-director-since-64.html |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Everett Fahy]] was appointed as the museum's fourth director in 1973.<ref name="The New York Times 1973 a419">{{cite web |last=Shirey |first=David L. |date=May 20, 1973 |title=Everett Fahy of the Met Is Narned. Frick Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/20/archives/everett-fahy-of-the-met-is-named-frick-director.html |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201214847/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/05/20/archives/everett-fahy-of-the-met-is-named-frick-director.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The museum announced plans to construct an annex at 5–9 East 70th Street.<ref name="nyt-1973-11-28">{{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=November 28, 1973 |title=Frick Drops Plan for Its New Wing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/28/archives/frick-drops-plan-for-its-new-wing-garden-and-terrace-to-be-created.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/28/archives/frick-drops-plan-for-its-new-wing-garden-and-terrace-to-be-created.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> After the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (LPC) expressed concerns over the fact that the expansion would require the demolition of the Widener House at 5 East 70th Street,<ref name="nyt-1973-03-15">{{Cite news |last=Knight |first=Michael |date=March 15, 1973 |title=Frick Planning to Raze Widener Town House |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/15/archives/frick-planning-to-raze-widener-town-house.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201749/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/15/archives/frick-planning-to-raze-widener-town-house.html |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=March 15, 1973 |title=Frick Dooms Town House |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-frick-dooms-town-house/140110384/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201746/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-frick-dooms-town-house/140110384/ |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=450}}</ref> the museum announced a plan for a "temporary garden" on the 70th Street lots, which the LPC approved.<ref name="The New York Times 1973 q840">{{cite web |first=Carter B. |last=Horsley |title=Widener Mansion is Coming Down |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 9, 1973 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/09/archives/widener-mansion-is-coming-down-museum-is-given-approval-to-demolish.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005719/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/07/09/archives/widener-mansion-is-coming-down-museum-is-given-approval-to-demolish.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=July 9, 1973 |title=Garden to Grow at Frick Museum |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-garden-to-grow-at-frick-museu/140111768/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=50 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-garden-to-grow-at-frick-museu/140111768/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The original annex was canceled that November,<ref name="nyt-1973-11-28" /> and Frick officials subsequently decided to build  a one-story wing on the Widener House's site.<ref name="nyt-1974-05-17">{{Cite news |date=May 17, 1974 |title=The Frick Changes Plan for Vacant Plot, Proposing 2d Wing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/17/archives/the-frick-changes-plan-for-vacant-plot-proposing-2d-wing.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201747/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/17/archives/the-frick-changes-plan-for-vacant-plot-proposing-2d-wing.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The annex had been proposed because, at the time, the mansion could accommodate only 250 people at once.<ref name="Wallach 1977">{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Amei |date=January 23, 1977 |title=Frick Collection's New Room Is Worth Waiting For |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-collecti/139790230/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=89 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-collecti/139790230/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Under Fahy's tenure, the museum began hosting more temporary exhibits, which it had seldom held before Fahy took over.<ref name="Newsday 1979">{{Cite news |date=January 23, 1979 |title=Frick shows loaned Fragonard drawings |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-shows-lo/140113951/ |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=110 |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202214826/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-frick-shows-lo/140113951/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick began charging admission for the first time in 1976.<ref name="Goldberger 1977 i035">{{cite web |last=Goldberger |first=Paul |date=March 1, 1977 |title=Frick Addition Echoes Original, a Holdover From Innocent Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/frick-addition-echoes-original-a-holdover-from-innocent-times.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/01/archives/frick-addition-echoes-original-a-holdover-from-innocent-times.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The annex was completed the next year, along with a garden,<ref name="Wallach 1977" /><ref name="Goldberger 1977 i035" /> designed by British landscape architect [[Russell Page]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Howe |first=Marvine |date=January 6, 1985 |title=Russell Page, British Planner of Gardens and Landscapes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/world/russell-page-british-planner-of-gardens-and-landscapes.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214606/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/world/russell-page-british-planner-of-gardens-and-landscapes.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick renovated the Boucher Room and cleaned and rearranged its paintings during the following decade.<ref name="The New York Times 1981 s585">{{cite web |last=Russell |first=John |date=July 24, 1981 |title=A Guide to the Discreet Changes at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/arts/a-guide-to-the-discreet-changes-at-the-frick.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129204740/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/24/arts/a-guide-to-the-discreet-changes-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By the mid-1980s, the museum displayed 169 works of art,<ref name="wp-1988-08-14" /><ref name="Mays 1985">{{Cite news |last=Mays |first=John Bentley |date=October 25, 1985 |title=Seeing Old Masters With New Eyes |work=The Globe and Mail |page=D9 |id={{ProQuest|1222376533}}}}</ref> and the galleries occupied 16 rooms.<ref name="wp-1988-08-14">{{cite news |last=Garrett |first=Robert |date=August 14, 1988 |title=Masters of the House: New York's Frick Collection |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1988/08/14/the-garden-court-at-the-frick-collection/fdedec73-1609-49a7-8a7f-480005a9a224/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=83 |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|139447378}}}}</ref> The museum periodically hosted [[chamber music]] performances in the Frick House's courtyard.<ref name="Ulmanis 1985">{{Cite news |last=Ulmanis |first=Silvija |date=January 19, 1985 |title=Museums in New York: Everything From Picasso to Dogs |work=The London Gazette |page=H3 |id={{ProQuest|431185641}}}}</ref> It was relatively low-profile compared to others in New York City, only sporadically expanding its collection and hosting small temporary exhibitions.<ref name="nyt-1987-01-09">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=January 9, 1987 |title=Frick Awaits New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/frick-awaits-new-director.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005721/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/09/arts/frick-awaits-new-director.html |url-status=live}}</ref> After Helen Frick died in 1984, the museum took over responsibility for the Frick Art Research Library;<ref name="nyt-1987-01-09" /> initially, the library had no endowment as Helen had not provided anything for the library in her will.<ref name="nyt-1993-03-21">{{Cite news |last=Russell |first=John |date=March 21, 1993 |title=Art View; Trouble at the Nonpareil of Art Libraries |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/arts/art-view-trouble-at-the-nonpareil-of-art-libraries.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205015825/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/21/arts/art-view-trouble-at-the-nonpareil-of-art-libraries.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Ceiling lights were installed in the Fragonard and Boucher rooms in the 1980s.<ref name="Italian Voice 2010">{{cite news |date=December 9, 2010 |title=Gallery by Gallery Improvements at Frick Museum |work=Italian Voice |page=4 |id={{ProQuest|824553202}}}}</ref>

[[Charles Ryskamp]], the former director of the [[Pierpont Morgan Library]], was appointed as the Frick's fifth director in December 1986 after Fahy's resignation,<ref name="nyt-1986-12-19">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=December 19, 1986 |title=The Frick Gets New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/19/arts/the-frick-gets-new-director.html |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |postscript=none |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214531/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/19/arts/the-frick-gets-new-director.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |date=December 19, 1986 |title=Frick Collection Names New Director |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-frick-collection-names-new-direc/140185691/ |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |pages=194 |archive-date=February 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203214940/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-frick-collection-names-new-direc/140185691/ |url-status=live}}</ref> though he did not assume that position for another six months.<ref name="nyt-1987-01-09" /> Under Ryskamp's directorship, some of the paintings were rearranged or brought out of storage.<ref name="Deitz 1988 l181">{{cite web |last=Deitz |first=Paula |date=April 10, 1988 |title=Art; Charles Ryskamp Brings a New Look To the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/art-charles-ryskamp-brings-a-new-look-to-the-frick.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204010557/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/10/arts/art-charles-ryskamp-brings-a-new-look-to-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By the 1990s, the art reference library was low on funds;<ref name="The New York Times 1990 q695" /> the library had a $25 million endowment by 1993,<ref name="nyt-1993-03-21" /> and the Frick began charging "frequent commercial users" of the library that year.<ref name="Vogel 1993 y129">{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Inside Art |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=December 17, 1993 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/inside-art.html |access-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223212647/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/arts/inside-art.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Through the 1990s, the Frick banned all children under the age of 10, as well as unaccompanied minors between ages 10 and 15,<ref name="nyt-1993-12-04" /><ref name="Wasserman 1994">{{Cite news |last=Wasserman |first=Joanne |date=January 14, 1994 |title=A risk of art attack |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-risk-of-art-attack/140312747/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=1916 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180925/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-a-risk-of-art-attack/140312747/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the museum also did not have a café.<ref name="Asimov 1992 j113">{{cite web |last=Asimov |first=Eric |date=November 13, 1992 |title=Sating the Eyes And Satisfying The Appetite |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/arts/sating-the-eyes-and-satisfying-the-appetite.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726154125/https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/13/arts/sating-the-eyes-and-satisfying-the-appetite.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The New York City government passed a law banning public institutions from discriminating by age in 1993, which would have forced the museum to start admitting children.<ref name="nyt-1993-12-04" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wasserman |first=Joanne |date=January 11, 1994 |title=Debate rages over kids' rights |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-debate-rages-over-kids-right/140313844/ |access-date=February 5, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=336 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180927/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-debate-rages-over-kids-right/140313844/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Museum officials requested a waiver, saying that they would have to install barriers if children were allowed,<ref name="nyt-1993-12-04">{{Cite news |last=Fein |first=Esther B. |date=December 4, 1993 |title=New York to Bar Age Bias in Public Places |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-age-bias-in-public-places.html |access-date=February 4, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 4, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240204164257/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/04/nyregion/new-york-to-bar-age-bias-in-public-places.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Wasserman 1994" /> and they received such a waiver in 1995.<ref name="ChildPolicy">{{Cite web |date=July 2009 |title=Policy on the Admission of Children |url=https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/ChildPolicy.pdf |access-date=February 5, 2024 |publisher=The Frick Collection |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.frick.org/sites/default/files/ChildPolicy.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, further lighting upgrades were made in the mid-1990s.<ref name="Italian Voice 2010" />

Ryskamp announced his retirement in 1997.<ref name="Abbe 1997">{{Cite news |last=Abbe |first=Mary |date=May 14, 1997 |title=Samuel Sachs II will head New York's Frick art museum |work=Star Tribune |page=4.B |id={{ProQuest|426838303}}}}</ref> After [[Samuel Sachs (museum director)|Samuel Sachs II]] was named as the museum's sixth director that May,<ref name="Abbe 1997" /><ref name="Vogel 1997 t186">{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=May 13, 1997 |title=Frick Finds Its Director In Detroit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/13/arts/frick-finds-its-director-in-detroit.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029160039/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/13/arts/frick-finds-its-director-in-detroit.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the trustees tasked him with raising funds.<ref name="nyt-2006-03-29">{{Cite news |last=Fabrikant |first=Geraldine |date=March 29, 2006 |title=New Money Dances With Old Money at the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/artsspecial/new-money-dances-with-old-money-at-the-frick.html |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202201745/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/29/arts/artsspecial/new-money-dances-with-old-money-at-the-frick.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Under Sachs's directorship, the museum launched a website in the 1990s,<ref name="Vogel 1998" /> and replaced the lighting and hosted additional special exhibitions.<ref name="Mandell 1998">{{cite news |last=Mandell |first=Jonathan |date=September 20, 1998 |title=On Museums / Monet Mania Hits the Frick – Well, Almost |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |page=D13 |id={{ProQuest|279143382}}}}</ref> Sachs also contemplated expanding the exhibition space, adding a café, and relocating the entrance to the house's garden.<ref name="Vogel 1998" /> In addition, the museum began providing complimentary audio guides for the mansion and artworks<ref name="Andre 1999" /><ref name="Vikan 1998">{{Cite news |last=Vikan |first=Gary |date=October 11, 1998 |title=Henry Clay Frick: Urge to Collect |work=The Sun |page=7F |id={{ProQuest|313742866}}}}</ref> and, in the early 21st century, added the Bloomberg Connects smartphone app.<ref name="Eisenpress 2022 u963">{{cite web | last=Eisenpress | first=Cara | title=How arts organizations got the app they needed-for free | website=Crain's New York Business | date=December 20, 2022 | url=https://www.crainsnewyork.com/arts/museums-collaborate-bloomberg-philanthropies-free-audio-guide-app | access-date=April 10, 2024}}</ref> Museum officials also began allowing parties to be hosted in the Frick House.<ref name="Hamilton 2008 k678">{{cite web |last=Hamilton |first=William L. |date=March 12, 2008 |title=Throwing a Bash? Surround It With Culture |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12events.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195817/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/12events.html |url-status=live}}</ref> A group named Friends of the Fellows of the Frick Collection was formed to raise interest in the museum.<ref name="The New York Times 1999 b612">{{cite web |last1=Barron |first1=James |last2=Brescia |first2=Joe |date=July 6, 1999 |title=Public Lives|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/nyregion/public-lives.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212910/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/06/nyregion/public-lives.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 2000s and 2010s ===
[[Colin Bailey (museum director)|Colin Bailey]] was appointed as chief curator in 2000 after Munhall resigned.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 9, 2000 |title=Chief curator of National Gallery leaves for small but important Frick museum in New York |work=National Post |page=B7 |id={{ProQuest|329660518}}}}</ref> During the late 1990s, the Helen Clay Frick Foundation proposed moving its archives in Pittsburgh to the Frick Collection's archives, prompting an intra-family debate over whether the collections should be merged.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lowry |first=Patricia |date=December 19, 1999 |title=Frick Papers Spark Feud; 3 in Family Balk at Moving Them From Here to N.y. |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |page=A-1 |id={{ProQuest|391386264}}}}</ref> The foundation's collection ultimately was split between the two cities in 2001, and most of the objects were sent to New York City.<ref name="The Associated Press 2001 o074">{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |date=March 6, 2001 |title=Frick Mementos to Be Restored in New York |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/frick-mementos-to-be-restored-in-new-york.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205212909/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/nyregion/frick-mementos-to-be-restored-in-new-york.html |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Lowry |first=Patricia |date=March 6, 2001 |title=Frick Archives May Be Split Between City and New York |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |page=A-1 |id={{ProQuest|392042089}}}}</ref> After attendance dropped following the [[September 11 attacks]] that year, the [[Andrew W. Mellon Foundation]] provided $270,000, in part to fund extended hours on Fridays.<ref name="Vogel 2002 g289">{{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |title=Inside Art |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 26, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/inside-art.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/26/arts/inside-art.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Sachs announced in January 2003 that he would resign as the museum's director in eight months,<ref name="Vogel 2003 x936">{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=January 9, 2003 |title=After Gently Modernizing the Frick, Director Plans to Leave |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/arts/after-gently-modernizing-the-frick-director-plans-to-leave.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220922065937/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/arts/after-gently-modernizing-the-frick-director-plans-to-leave.html |url-status=live}}</ref> as the board of trustees had not renewed his contract.<ref name="nyt-2006-03-29" /> At the time of Sachs's resignation, the museum recorded 350,000 annual visitors, 20 percent more than in 1997,<ref name="Vogel 2003 x936" /> but it was running at a $1 million annual deficit.<ref name="Eakin 2005 g552">{{cite web |last=Eakin |first=Hugh |date=July 31, 2005 |title=Making a Less Fusty Frick (and Hoping Nobody Notices) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/making-a-less-fusty-frick-and-hoping-nobody-notices.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208195824/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/arts/design/making-a-less-fusty-frick-and-hoping-nobody-notices.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Annexes to the museum were proposed in 2001, 2005, and 2008,<ref name="Pogrebin 2014a">{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 10, 2014 |title=Frick Seeks to Expand Beyond Jewel-Box Spaces |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/arts/design/frick-plans-changes-but-vows-to-stay-the-same.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006045729/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/10/arts/design/frick-plans-changes-but-vows-to-stay-the-same.html |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> but all of these plans were canceled because it would have required an extended closure of the museum and still would not have provided sufficient space.<ref name="wsj-2014-12-12" />

The art scholar [[Anne Poulet|Anne L. Poulet]] was hired in August 2003 as the Frick's first female director,<ref>{{cite news |last=Muchnic |first=Suzanne |date=December 28, 2003 |title=Eye on the Frick; Anne Litle Poulet draws attention as the first woman to serve as director of the famed New York collection. |work=Los Angeles Times |page=E48 |issn=0458-3035 |id={{ProQuest|421871142}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=August 5, 2003 |title=Boston Curator Chosen To Direct the Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/arts/boston-curator-chosen-to-direct-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/05/arts/boston-curator-chosen-to-direct-the-frick.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> and the museum was reorganized as a tax-exempt public charity shortly after Poulet became the director.<ref name="Eakin 2005 g552" /> Under Poulet's tenure, she replaced lighting in several galleries<ref name="Eakin 2005 g552" /><ref name="Landi 2010" /> and rearranged some of the pieces.<ref name="Eakin 2005 g552" /> She also raised $55 million for renovations;<ref name="Landi 2010">{{cite news |last=Landi |first=Ann |date=December 15, 2010 |title=Museum: The Frick at a Glowing 75 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704457604576011501026027710 |access-date=February 3, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |page=D6 |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|817587039}} |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419193155/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704457604576011501026027710 |url-status=live}}</ref> the museum's facilities had become dated, and the basement exhibition space was no longer sufficient.<ref name="Eakin 2005 g552" /> Because of the Frick's classification as a charity, the museum had to raise a third of its budget from donations.<ref name="nyt-2006-03-29" /> The Frick created programs to attract major donors and art collectors,<ref name="nyt-2006-03-29" /><ref name="Landi 2010" /> and it began charging admission fees for concerts in 2005.<ref name="Wakin 2005 u459">{{cite web |last=Wakin |first=Daniel J. |date=June 30, 2005 |title=Frick's Concert Tickets Go From Free to $20 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/music/fricks-concert-tickets-go-from-free-to-20.html |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205190146/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/arts/music/fricks-concert-tickets-go-from-free-to-20.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Mattison 2005 n731" /> During the 2000s decade, the Frick did not acquire many additional items.<ref name="Landi 2010" /> In contrast to larger museums, it generally hosted small, detailed exhibits,<ref name="Landi 2010" /> though the number of short-term exhibitions at the Frick increased during the decade.<ref name="Smith 2008 a143">{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=August 28, 2008 |title=Change Arrives on Tiptoes at the Old Frick Mansion |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105091532/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Further restorations of the museum's galleries took place through the late 2000s to attract visitors.<ref name="Smith 2010 q026">{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Roberta |date=January 7, 2010 |title=A Fresh Makeover for Familiar Faces at Frick Collection |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214153/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Frick Museum garden seen through gated fence.jpg|alt=The Frick Collection's garden on 70th Street|thumb|left|upright|A plan to expand the museum in 2014 failed because of opposition to demolishing the 70th Street garden ''(pictured)''.]]

Poulet announced her retirement in September 2010,<ref name="nyt-2010-09-22">{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=September 22, 2010 |title=Director of Frick Collection Will Retire in Fall of 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/arts/design/23museum.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=November 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107133833/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/arts/design/23museum.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Ian Wardropper]] was hired as the museum's director in 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 2, 2011 |title=Ian Wardropper Named Next Director of the Frick Collection |work=Italian Voice |page=6 |id={{ProQuest|872185925}} |postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Kate |last2=Vogel |first2=Carol |date=May 19, 2011 |title=The Frick Collection Names a New Director |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/the-frick-collection-names-a-new-director.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029155954/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/arts/design/the-frick-collection-names-a-new-director.html |archive-date=October 29, 2023 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> A sculpture gallery, designed by [[Davis Brody Bond]], opened at the Frick House in December 2011, becoming the first new gallery at the museum in three decades.<ref name="Russeth 2011 z988">{{cite web |last=Russeth |first=Andrew |date=December 14, 2011 |title=Frick Collection Grows a Gallery |url=https://observer.com/2011/12/frick-collection-grows-a-gallery/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://observer.com/2011/12/frick-collection-grows-a-gallery/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kahn 2011 o326">{{cite web |last=Kahn |first=Eve M. |date=December 8, 2011 |title=Patent Models, Roger Broders Posters, Meissen Porcelain |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/patent-models-roger-broders-posters-meissen-porcelain.html |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214146/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/arts/design/patent-models-roger-broders-posters-meissen-porcelain.html |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Owens |first=Mitchell |date=January 1, 2012 |title=New Sculpture Gallery at the Frick Collection |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-sculpture-portico-gallery-article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-sculpture-portico-gallery-article |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest}}</ref> Bailey resigned as the chief curator in 2013,<ref name="Finkel 2014 j172">{{cite web |last=Finkel |first=Jori |date=October 23, 2014 |title=Colin Bailey Revamps San Francisco Art Museums |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/artsspecial/colin-bailey-revamps-san-francisco-art-museums.html |access-date=February 8, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207024320/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/arts/artsspecial/colin-bailey-revamps-san-francisco-art-museums.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Xavier F. Salomon]] was hired as the chief curator the same year.<ref name="Duray 2013 j462">{{cite web |last=Duray |first=Dan |date=November 4, 2013 |title=Xavier F. Salomon, 34, Named New Frick Collection Chief Curator |url=https://observer.com/2013/11/xavier-f-salomon-34-named-new-frick-collection-chief-curator/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Observer |postscript=none |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005649/https://observer.com/2013/11/xavier-f-salomon-34-named-new-frick-collection-chief-curator/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite web |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=November 4, 2013 |title=New Chief Curator for the Frick |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/new-chief-curator-for-the-frick/ |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=ArtsBeat |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104201559/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/new-chief-curator-for-the-frick/ |url-status=live}}</ref> During the 2010s, the Frick began raising $290 million for its renovation.<ref name="Tremayne-Pengelly 2023 m400">{{cite web |last=Tremayne-Pengelly |first=Alexandra |date=November 6, 2023 |title=The Frick Collection Is Nearing Its $290M Fundraising Goal for Renovations |url=https://observer.com/2023/11/frick-collection-nearing-290m-renovation-goal/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Observer |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129030557/https://observer.com/2023/11/frick-collection-nearing-290m-renovation-goal/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pogrebin 2024 m400">{{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=January 3, 2024 |title=Frick Leader to Step Down After 14-Year Run |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The collection had reached more than 1,100 works by the mid-2010s.<ref name="Pitz 2014">{{cite web |last=Pitz |first=Marylynne |date=November 23, 2014 |title=New York's Frick Collection to expand |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/11/23/New-York-s-Frick-Collection-to-expand/stories/201411230016 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |archive-date=October 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221002010950/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/art-architecture/2014/11/23/New-York-s-Frick-Collection-to-expand/stories/201411230016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pogrebin 2014a" /><ref name="wsj-2014-12-12">{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Jennifer |title=Flak Over the Frick Collection's Expansion Plans |url=http://online.wsj.com/articles/flak-over-the-frick-collections-expansion-plans-1418335367 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |date=December 12, 2014 |page=A.17 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660  |archive-date=February 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240215005707/https://www.wsj.com/articles/flak-over-the-frick-collections-expansion-plans-1418335367 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{Efn|A ''New York Times'' article from 2014 described the collection as having 1,200 works,<ref name="Pogrebin 2014a" /> while a ''Wall Street Journal'' article from the same year gives a figure of 1,115 works.<ref name=wsj-2014-12-12 />}} In addition, the museum was hosting an average of five temporary exhibits per year.<ref name="wsj-2014-12-12" /> The Frick House's facilities were not adequate for the museum's modern needs. For example, paintings had to be carried into the museum through the house's front door, and portraits had to be placed in storage whenever the Frick hosted a visiting show.<ref name="Iovine 2014" /> The concerts at the museum sometimes sold out as well.<ref name="wsj-2014-12-12" />

In 2014, the museum announced plans for a six-story annex on 70th Street designed by Davis Brody Bond.<ref name="Pogrebin 2014a" /><ref name="Pitz 2014" /> Russell Page's garden on 70th Street would have been demolished to make way for the annex; this prompted opposition from residents and preservationists,<ref name="Goodman 2015 f781">{{cite web |last=Goodman |first=Wendy |date=March 12, 2015 |title=One Very Contentious Garden |url=https://nymag.com/homedesign/features/frick-garden-expansion/ |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=New York |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://nymag.com/homedesign/features/frick-garden-expansion/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Pogrebin 2014">{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=November 9, 2014 |title=Frick's Plan for Expansion Faces Fight Over Loss of Garden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/arts/fricks-plan-for-expansion-faces-fight-over-loss-of-garden.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012129/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/arts/fricks-plan-for-expansion-faces-fight-over-loss-of-garden.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref> and the Frick announced in June 2015 that it would draw up new designs.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pitz |first=Marylynne |date=June 6, 2015 |title=Frick Museum in N.Y. Drops Plans for Garden Area |work=Pittsburgh Post – Gazette |id={{ProQuest|1686201001}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Frick Museum Abandons Contested Renovation Plan |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/nyregion/frick-museum-abandons-contested-renovation-plan.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104034921/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/nyregion/frick-museum-abandons-contested-renovation-plan.html |archive-date=January 4, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jennifer |date=June 4, 2015 |title=Frick Collection to Redo Expansion Plan |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/frick-collection-to-redo-expansion-plan-1433460740 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal  |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=February 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213214205/https://www.wsj.com/articles/frick-collection-to-redo-expansion-plan-1433460740 |url-status=live}}</ref> To attract younger visitors, the museum began hosting free events in the mid-2010s,<ref name="wsj-2017-08-25">{{Cite news |last=Passy |first=Charles |date=August 25, 2017 |title=NYC Museums Offering Free Events to Draw Visitors |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-museums-offering-free-events-to-draw-visitors-1503583200 |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal  |issn=0099-9660 |archive-date=January 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103055324/https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyc-museums-offering-free-events-to-draw-visitors-1503583200 |url-status=live}}</ref> such as First Fridays.<ref name="Kennedy 2016 x124" /> The Frick hired [[Annabelle Selldorf]] to design a revised expansion plan for the museum, which was announced in April 2018;<ref>{{cite web |last=Stamp |first=Elizabeth |date=April 6, 2018 |title=The Frick Museum Selects Selldorf Architects for Multimillion-Dollar Renovation |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-museum-selects-selldorf-architects-multimillion-renovation |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=Architectural Digest |postscript=none |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180926/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/frick-museum-selects-selldorf-architects-multimillion-renovation |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=April 4, 2018 |title=Frick Collection, With Fourth Expansion Plan, Crosses Its Fingers Again |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-selldorf.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-selldorf.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref><ref name="Davidson 2018 s615">{{cite web |last=Davidson |first=Justin |date=April 13, 2018 |title=This Time, a Much More Promising Attempt to Fix the Frick |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/this-time-a-much-more-promising-attempt-to-fix-the-frick.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/this-time-a-much-more-promising-attempt-to-fix-the-frick.html |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=Intelligencer}}</ref> the LPC approved Selldorf's plans that June.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 26, 2018 |title=Frick's Expansion Is Approved by Landmarks Preservation Board |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-approved.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/arts/design/frick-collection-expansion-approved.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick then sought to relocate to the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] temporarily, but the Guggenheim was available for only four months.<ref name="Farago">{{Cite web |last=Farago |first=Jason |date=February 25, 2021 |title=The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/design/frick-madison-moves-breuer-reopen.html |access-date=July 31, 2023 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720135457/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/design/frick-madison-moves-breuer-reopen.html |url-status=live}}</ref> By September 2018, the Frick was negotiating to take over the [[Whitney Museum]]'s space at [[945 Madison Avenue]];<ref name="Gibson 2018 a192">{{cite web |last=Gibson |first=Eleanor |date=September 28, 2018 |title=The Met to give Breuer building to Frick Collection during renovation |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/28/the-met-breuer-building-frick-collection-renovation-new-york-museums/ |access-date=February 12, 2024 |website=Dezeen |postscript=none |archive-date=October 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231001122740/https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/28/the-met-breuer-building-frick-collection-renovation-new-york-museums/ |url-status=live}}; {{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 21, 2018 |title=The Frick Likely to Take Over the Met Breuer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/met-breuer-frick-collection.html |access-date=February 12, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101080550/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/arts/design/met-breuer-frick-collection.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the Frick finalized a two-year lease for that building in 2020.<ref name="Pogrebin 2020 s105">{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 30, 2020 |title=Frick Announces Plans for Its Two-Year Stay in Breuer Building |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/frick-madison-breuer-building.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240201192413/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/arts/design/frick-madison-breuer-building.html |archive-date=February 1, 2024 |access-date=February 1, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== 2020s to present ===
[[File:6 16 2021 Frick old Whitney building 945 Madison Avenue NYC.jpg|alt=The facade of the Frick Madison at 945 Madison Avenue|thumb|The Frick moved to [[945 Madison Avenue]] between 2021 and 2024.]]
The Frick closed in mid-March 2020 due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]];<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Pogrebin |first1=Robin |last2=Cooper |first2=Michael |date=March 12, 2020 |title=New York's Major Cultural Institutions Close in Response to Coronavirus |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/design/met-museum-opera-carnegie-hall-close-coronavirus.html |access-date=February 11, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=February 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211142003/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/arts/design/met-museum-opera-carnegie-hall-close-coronavirus.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Kenney 2020 j291" /> the opening of the temporary location was delayed due to the pandemic.<ref name="nyt-2021-02-09">{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=February 9, 2021 |title=Frick Collection to Open as Frick Madison in March (With Coffee) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/arts/design/frick-breuer-move-opening.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608151315/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/arts/design/frick-breuer-move-opening.html |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 }}</ref><ref name="Kenney 2020 j291">{{cite web |last=Kenney |first=Nancy |date=July 20, 2020 |title=New York's Frick Collection will open at Madison Avenue location in early 2021 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/20/new-yorks-frick-collection-will-open-at-madison-avenue-location-in-early-2021 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |archive-date=February 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240202180816/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2020/07/20/new-yorks-frick-collection-will-open-at-madison-avenue-location-in-early-2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> The museum's collection was moved to 945 Madison Avenue, which reopened as the Frick Madison in March 2021.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=March 12, 2021 |title=The Frick Collection's New Home |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-frick-collections-new-home |access-date=February 4, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203233717/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/22/the-frick-collections-new-home |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick Madison housed the museum's [[old masters]] collection, including 104 paintings, along with sculptures, vases, and clocks.<ref name="Farago" /> Most of the 1,500-piece collection of artwork was placed in storage at 945 Madison Avenue,<ref name="Raskin2">{{Cite web |last=Raskin |first=Laura |date=March 4, 2021 |title=Frick Madison Brings a New Look to the Breuer |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15027-frick-brings-a-new-look-to-the-breuer |access-date=April 15, 2023 |work=Architectural Record |archive-date=February 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207014849/https://www.architecturalrecord.com/evercookie/save?name=esessionid |url-status=live}}</ref> and about 300 works were placed on display.<ref name="Raskin2" /><ref name="Tarmy 2021 h167">{{cite web |last=Tarmy |first=James |date=March 4, 2021 |title=Touring the Frick Madison, New York's Newest Cultural Landmark |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/tour-the-frick-collection-s-new-madison-avenue-museum-location-in-nyc |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926111736/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-04/tour-the-frick-collection-s-new-madison-avenue-museum-location-in-nyc |archive-date=September 26, 2022 |access-date=February 2, 2024 |website=Bloomberg.com}}</ref> At the Frick Madison, the artwork was exhibited against stark dark gray walls, in contrast to the Frick House's ornate decoration;<ref name="Raskin2" /><ref name="Farago" /> the paintings were also grouped according to their age and region of origin.<ref name="Whittle 2021">{{cite web |last=Whittle |first=Andrea |date=February 11, 2021 |title=Frick Madison — Museum Review |url=https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/frick-madison |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=Condé Nast Traveler |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205180928/https://www.cntraveler.com/activities/new-york/frick-madison |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="U.S. News Travel 1970 z428">{{cite web |date=January 1, 1970 |title=Frick Collection Reviews |url=https://travel.usnews.com/New_York_NY/Things_To_Do/Frick_Collection_62875/ |url-status=dead<!--live version of the ref is different--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209172600/https://travel.usnews.com/New_York_NY/Things_To_Do/Frick_Collection_62875/ |archive-date=February 9, 2024 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |website=U.S. News Travel}}{{Cbignore}}</ref><ref name=wsj-2021-03-10>{{Cite news |date=March 10, 2021 |last=Wilkin |first=Karen |title=The Frick Collection: Relocated, Reshuffled and Revitalized |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/relocated-reshuffled-and-revitalized-11615407326 |access-date=February 9, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660  |archive-date=June 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607234042/https://www.wsj.com/articles/relocated-reshuffled-and-revitalized-11615407326 |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick Madison also included a café.<ref name="Senzamici 2023 u798">{{cite web | last=Senzamici | first=Peter | title=Cold-Brew Sisters Open Up Cafe Inside UES Museum | website=Upper East Side, NY Patch | date=January 27, 2023 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/cold-brew-sisters-open-cafe-inside-ues-museum | access-date=April 10, 2024}}</ref>

The museum had raised $242 million for its capital campaign by the end of 2023.<ref name="Tremayne-Pengelly 2023 m400" /><ref name="Pogrebin 2024 m400" /> Wardropper announced in January 2024 that he would resign the following year, after the Frick House's renovation was complete.<ref name="Pogrebin 2024 m400" /><ref name="Goukassian 2024 r874">{{cite web |last=Goukassian |first=Elena |date=January 8, 2024 |title=Frick Collection director to retire after $195m renovation |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/08/frick-collection-ian-wardropper-director-to-retire-in-2025 |access-date=January 29, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |postscript=none |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/01/08/frick-collection-ian-wardropper-director-to-retire-in-2025 |url-status=live}}; {{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=January 3, 2024 |title=Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |access-date=January 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331  |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129012130/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/frick-art-museum-historic-wardropper.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The Frick Madison closed on March 3, 2024.<ref name="Sutton 2023 h471">{{cite web |last=Sutton |first=Benjamin |title=Frick Collection will vacate Brutalist Madison Avenue building in early 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events |date=April 21, 2023 |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/21/frick-collection-leaving-breuer-building-2024-mansion-renovation |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103202536/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/21/frick-collection-leaving-breuer-building-2024-mansion-renovation |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Senzamici 2023 d020">{{cite web |last=Senzamici |first=Peter |title=Frick Announces Move From Madison Back To Reno'd Mansion |website=Upper East Side, NY Patch |date=April 29, 2023 |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-announces-move-madison-back-renod-mansion |access-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129142958/https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-announces-move-madison-back-renod-mansion |url-status=live}}</ref> The Henry Clay Frick House and Frick Art Research Library were originally expected to reopen in late 2024,<ref name="Sutton 2023 h471" /><ref name="Clark 2024 f963">{{cite web |last=Clark |first=Roger |title=The Frick Collection will soon be going home |website=Spectrum News NY1 |date=February 26, 2024 |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/human-interest/2024/02/25/the-frick-collection-will-soon-be-going-home |access-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303173403/https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/human-interest/2024/02/25/the-frick-collection-will-soon-be-going-home |url-status=live }}</ref> but this was pushed back.<ref name="Pogrebin t735">{{cite web | last=Rahmanan | first=Anna | title=The Frick Collection just announced it will officially reopen in April | website=Time Out New York | date=January 28, 2025 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/the-frick-collection-is-finally-reopening-in-2025-103124 | access-date=February 1, 2025 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web | last=Levingston | first=Miranda | title=The Frick Gets A Much-Anticipated Opening Date After $330M Makeover | website=Upper East Side, NY Patch | date=January 31, 2025 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/frick-gets-much-anticipated-opening-date-after-330m-makeover | access-date=February 1, 2025}}</ref><ref name="Higgins 2025">{{cite web |last=Higgins |first=Charlotte |date=March 25, 2025 |title='No more velvet rope': how New York's beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/mar/25/new-yorks-beloved-frick-museum-old-masters-gilded-age |access-date=March 25, 2025 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>  Some existing exhibition spaces were rearranged as well,<ref name="Sheets g765" /><ref name="nyt-2025-03-20">{{Cite news |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=2025-03-20 |title=A Guided Tour: Inside the Splendor of the New Frick |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/19/arts/design/frick-museum-reopening-nyc.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p3188104144">{{Cite news |last=Gibson |first=Eric |title=At the Frick, Close Encounters With a Reconceived Collection |url=https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/at-the-frick-close-encounters-with-a-reconceived-collection-5d9b9650 |access-date=2025-04-10 |work=The Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660 |id={{ProQuest|3188104144}}}}</ref> and a 60-seat restaurant was added to the first floor.<ref name="Higgins 2025" /> In September 2024, the Frick hired [[Axel Rüger]], the head of the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] in London, to serve as the museum's director beginning in 2025.<ref name="Pogrebin k368">{{cite web |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=September 21, 2024 |title=The Frick Looks to London for Its Next Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/arts/design/frick-collection-director-axel-ruger-royal-academy.html |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=The New York Times |page=C3 |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Mitchell |first=Bea |date=September 20, 2024 |title=Frick Collection appoints Axel Rüger as next director |url=https://blooloop.com/museum/news/frick-collection-axel-ruger-new-director/ |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=Blooloop |postscript=none}}; {{Cite web |last=Harris |first=Gareth |date=September 20, 2024 |title=Axel Rüger leaves London's Royal Academy for New York's Frick Collection |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/09/20/axel-ruger-leaves-londons-royal-academy-for-the-frick-collection |access-date=September 21, 2024 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events}}</ref> The Frick Collection reopened on April 17, 2025.<ref name="Kleinbub p601">{{cite web | last=Kleinbub | first=Christian K. | title=The New Frick is the Best of the Old School | website=ARTnews.com | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/columns/new-frick-collection-elitist-pleasure-1234738874/ | access-date=April 17, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Frick Collection reopens after renovation | website=CBS New York | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/video/frick-collection-reopens-after-renovation/ | access-date=April 17, 2025|postscript=none}}; {{cite web | last=Jack | first=Dominique | title=The Frick Collection reopens to the public in NYC | website=PIX11 | date=April 17, 2025 | url=https://pix11.com/things-to-do/the-frick-collection-reopens-to-the-public-in-nyc/ | access-date=April 17, 2025}}</ref>