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A variety of programs are offered in conjunction with the current exhibition at The Frick Art Museum. American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770 – 1920 is on view from April 14, 2005 through June 12, 2005.

Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Opening Celebration: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770 – 1920
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
$25 members/students; $30 non-members/guests
Reservations recommended

Join us for wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibition in The Frick Art Museum.


April 14, 2005 – June 12, 2005
Exhibition: American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770 – 1920
The Frick Art Museum
A suggested contribution will be requested to view this extraordinary exhibition.

This spectacular exhibition features over ninety paintings and sculptures by many of America’s most important artists. Among those featured include the eighteenth-century masters John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West, whose canvases helped to define a national identity; Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, whose nineteenth-century landscapes gave us a sense of the nation’s sublime beauty; and George Caleb Bingham and Winslow Homer, chroniclers of a nation coming of age around the time of the Civil War. American Beauty also shows how French Impressionism and other international movements were absorbed by Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition is rounded out by paintings of The Ashcan School artists, who turned their eyes and brushes to representing modern urban life in its gritty beauty, and by the enormously expressive sculptures of Frederic Remington and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. American Beauty is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Pittsburgh presentation is made possible, in part, through a generous grant from the Allegheny Foundation.


Fridays, April 15 – June 10, 2005
Friday Gallery Talks
2:00 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
Free, drop-in program

Frick staff members present short gallery talks on selected paintings from the exhibition.


Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Music for Exhibitions: The Beauty of It All
7:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum auditorium
$15 members/students; $20 non-members/guests
Advance registration recommended

This special concert by three noted Pittsburgh musicians complements the American Beauty exhibition. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians Jennifer Orchard, assistant principal second violin, and Anne Martindale Williams, principal cello, along with their guest, pianist Natasha Snitkovsky, perform a survey of some of the extraordinary music composed by women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Featured composers include Clara Schumann, Ellen Zwilich and Amy Beach, the first American woman composer to achieve wide acclaim despite the social obstacles of the late nineteenth century. Jonnie Viakley, avid art and music enthusiast, will moderate a discussion of the connections between the music and art. A Meet-the-Artists reception follows the concert. The galleries remain open throughout the intermission and reception.


Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Week of the Young Child: Yankee Doodle: A Tuneful Trip
10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
Free and open to the public

Young children and their families will enjoy this free tour of American Beauty.


Sunday, May 1, 2005
Kids’ Landscape Workshop: Going Places
12:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
$8 members; $10 non-members/guests
Advance registration required

Kids ages 7 – 12 take a cross-country journey, touring the majestic landscapes in American Beauty. Final destination is our education center to create an acrylic painting of a favorite place.


Thursday, May 5, 2005
Art at Noon: An American(ists) Dream: The Secrets and Significance of Early American Art
Elisabeth Roark, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Art History at Chatham College
12:00 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum auditorium
Free and open to the public

A specialist in Colonial and Nineteenth-century American art, Dr. Roark examines masterpieces of American art before 1917 in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Long regarded as derivative of European art, early American art is now recognized and collected for its aesthetic and historical significance. Roark provides insights about this change through works such as John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark (1777-78) and Frederic Edwin Church’s Cotopaxi (1862).


Saturday, May 7, 2005
ArtKids: This Land is Your Land
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
The Frick Art Museum
Free, drop-in program

Kids ages 4 – 8 take a look at the landscape paintings in the American Beauty exhibition and create a take home project.


Thursday, May 19, 2005
Films at the Frick: Meet Me in St. Louis
7:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum auditorium
$5 members/students; $6 non-members/guests

This lively musical directed by Vincent Minnelli and starring Judy Garland is a perfect representation of the splendor and industry that marked America during the Gilded Age. 1944. Color. 113 minutes. Introduction by Sarah Hall, Registrar.


Sunday, May 22, 2005
Just for Families: American Beauty
12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
Free, drop-in program

Celebrate American artist Mary Cassatt’s birthday with family tours, scavenger hunts and art activities.


Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Lecture: Masters of American Impressionism and Realism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Judith O’Toole, Director and CEO, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
7:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum auditorium
$8 members/students; $10 non-members/guests
Registration suggested

This slide lecture will reveal insights into the significant contributions of American painters to these two aesthetic movements that held the attention of artists, critics and the public at the turn of the twentieth century. Although sometimes at odds with one another, practitioners of these two schools of painting often overlapped and by the middle of the century found themselves aligned together against the incursion of abstraction and modernism.


Thursdays, June 2 and 9, 2005
Adult Workshop: Landscape Painting – Across the Great Divide
7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum
$20 members/students; $25 non-members/guests
Advance registration required

For inspiration participants will tour the American Beauty exhibition, and then create an acrylic landscape painting in this two-session workshop. Materials are provided and all artistic levels are encouraged.


Friday, June 3, 2005
American Adventure: Morning at the Frick/Afternoon at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art
10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
The Frick Art Museum, Westmoreland Museum of American Art
$40 members/students; $50 non-members/guests
Advance registration required

Director Bill Bodine begins this day of discovery with a gallery walk through of American Beauty. At mid-day, participants board a bus for the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, where Curator Barbara Jones provides a tour of the nineteenth and twentieth century American artists in the museum’s permanent collection. A boxed lunch at WMAA is included.


Saturday, June 4, 2005
ArtKids: Let’s Face It
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
The Frick Art Museum
Free, drop-in program

Kids ages 4 – 8 explore the portraits in American Beauty.



Exhibition Organizational and Support Credits
American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770 – 1920 is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Pittsburgh presentation is supported by a generous grant from the Allegheny Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Exhibitions and educational programs at the Frick Art & Historical Center are made possible, in part, by annual operating support grants from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the Allegheny Regional Asset District.

Exhibition Tours
Docent-led tours of temporary exhibitions are conducted on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Group tours (for groups of five or more) of American Beauty are available at a cost of $10 per person, and tours of the permanent collection are available at a cost of $5 per person. Group tours and permanent collection tour reservations must be made one to two weeks in advance. Call 412-371-0600.

The Café at the Frick
Before or after touring the exhibition, indulge in the pleasures of The Café at the Frick. Its award-winning menu includes seasonal specials and gourmet desserts. Lunch and tea offered Tuesday – Sunday. Outdoor seating on the patio is available during fair weather.

American Beauty Shop
The Frick Art Museum’s intimate Jacobean room will be the site for a very special store designed to complement American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770 – 1920. Beginning April 14, browse the American Beauty Shop for beautiful hand-blown glass and classic costume jewelry from a private estate. Scan the Jacobean Room’s stately bookcases for a wide selection of books on American painters and American history. Take home a memory of American Beauty with exhibition-related merchandise, including postcards, magnets, prints, and T-shirts.

The Museum Shop
The Museum Shop’s unique inventory is hand-picked and changes often. The Shop offers books on local history and art, including exhibition catalogues, as well as other topics relating to the Frick's collections. The Museum Shop also carries decorative items for the home, personal accessories, and unique books, toys, and stuffed animals for children. The Museum Shop is open Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays.

Frick Art & Historical Center
The Frick Art & Historical Center is located at 7227 Reynolds Street in Point Breeze. Free parking is available in the Frick’s off-street lot, or along adjacent neighborhood streets.

General hours of operation
Tuesday – Sunday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Closed Mondays and major holidays.

For information and reservations, please call 412-371-0600, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Sunday.

For information and reservations for kids’ programs, please call 412-205-2022,
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

For further information or images, please contact Greg Langel, Public Relations and Publications Manager in the External Affairs Department at the Frick Art & Historical Center, at 412-371-0600 ext. 524, or glangel@frickart.org.


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