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A gentleman wrapped in a cloak, who appears to have just arrived on the scene, brings a letter to the young woman of the painting’s title, who turns to gaze directly out of the picture at the viewer.

A special guard in red uniforms and 50 private detectives standing by every entrance were not enough last week for the opening of the Henry Clay Frick art collection on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

If you’ve ever accidentally conflated art museum The Frick Pittsburgh with New York’s renowned Frick Collection, a new exhibit is a good chance to clear up the confusion — and to catch the Pittsburgh ...

Ever since Pittsburgh Steel Tycoon Henry Clay Frick left his strong-willed daughter a fortune that has grown to at least $38 million in five decades, Helen Clay Frick has spent her life idealizing his ...

Henry Clay Frick is a name that is directly connected to the steel industry. He is known as an American industrialist, financier and art collector and is forever linked to the McKinley Memorial ...

Visitors to the Frick Pittsburgh are greeted with an interactive wall that asks, “Who decides what art is worth collecting and preserving?” In post-it form, the public answered, “ME,” “you,” and ...

PITTSBURGH, PA — It’s been easy for decades to drift into a dream state of aesthetic pleasure at the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue in New York without giving much thought to the bare-knuckled ...