Beginning June 22, 2010, the Frick Collection, in New York City celebrates its 75th Anniversary with special events, free days, etc. 
Frick started out collecting works by artists from the Barbizon school, (a group of 19th-century French landscape painters) along with work from Titian, Rembrandt, Velazquez, El Greco, Goya and Fragonard. He continued to collect things that he liked and thought beautiful – Limoges enamels, Sevres porcelain, 18th-century French furniture and tapestries. All are on display here.
“It was the desire of Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) that his extraordinary art collection and magnificent home at 1 East 70 Street be opened as a museum following his family’s period of residence. After the death of his wife, Adelaide, in 1931, the mansion, built in 1913–14 by Thomas Hastings (1860–1929) of Carrère and Hastings, underwent further construction in order to transform it into a space suitable as a public institution…expanded by architect John Russell Pope (1873–1937), the resulting building opened to a fascinated public on December 16, 1935 as of The Frick Collection.”
1 East 70th Street
New York, NY
(Images: Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, “An officer Conde de Teba”, 1804 and “Portrait of a Woman”, 1635, Frans Hals)