PITTSBURGH, Nov. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The
Frick Art & Historical Center (The Frick Pittsburgh) in
Pittsburgh's Point Breeze neighborhood announces that it
will receive a Bank of America 2016 Art Conservation Project grant
for the conservation of three early-16th-century
European tapestries in its collection. The Frick Pittsburgh's
collection includes four tapestries purchased by founder
Helen Clay Frick from 1965–1970
specifically for The Frick Art Museum's rotunda, where they are on
permanent display. One of the tapestries, Rest on the Flight
Into Egypt, which is of Flemish origin, was recently conserved
through a National Endowment for the Arts grant award. Of the three
tapestries to be conserved as part of the Bank of America Art
Conservation Project— The Court of Love—is also of Flemish
origin, while the other two—Lady and Attendants and Two
Musicians—were woven by the French School of Loire.
Frick Director Robin Nicholson
says, "We are honored and delighted to receive this generous grant
and are most grateful for the generous support of Bank of America.
The Frick's historic tapestries are enjoyed by tens of thousands of
visitors to The Frick Art Museum annually, and much-needed
conservation work will ensure that they remain intact for the
enjoyment of future generations."
Bank of America Vice-Chairman
Terry Laughlin remarked: "The Bank
of America Art Conservation Project is an extension of our global
commitment to supporting the arts and delivering both social and
economic value to the community. Our support for the arts is
diverse, and includes loaning our art collection to museums at no
cost, sponsorships, grants to arts organizations for arts
education, and the preservation of cultural treasures. I'm
delighted that we are making this grant to The Frick Pittsburgh in
support of a great institution and its good works in the
Pittsburgh community."
Frick Director of Curatorial Affairs Sarah Hall comments, "The Frick is fortunate to
be one of more than 20 museums awarded funding by the Bank of
America Art Conservation Project this year. Textile conservation of
500-year-old tapestries is a highly specialized and labor intensive
endeavor, and this grant allows us to continue to advance both the
physical care of the tapestries and our research into their
history. We plan to document the conservation through expanding the
website, fricktapestry.org."
The conservation work is planned to be completed by expert
textile conservator Julia Woodward
Dippold of Baltimore,
Maryland, who has worked with the Frick's tapestry
collection for nearly twenty years and has completed projects for
major museums and collections internationally, including the
Ringling Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. The work will
commence in January 2017 and is
expected to be completed by July
2018.
ABOUT THE BANK OF AMERICA ART CONSERVATION
PROJECT
The Bank of America Art Conservation Project is a unique program
that provides grants to nonprofit museums throughout the world to
conserve historically or culturally significant works of art that
are in danger of deterioration. Since the program's launch in 2010,
Bank of America has provided grants to museums in 29 countries
supporting over 100 conservation projects. Projects in 2016 include
'Blue Boy' a painting by Thomas Gainsborough at The Huntington
Library in Los Angeles, a painting
by Claude Monet at the Kimbell Art
Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas; an
Andy Warhol piece at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago; and
three paintings at the Dalí Museum in Tampa/St.
Petersburg. Fla. For more information, please visit Bank of
America's Arts & Culture website.
ABOUT BANK OF AMERICA
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ABOUT THE FRICK PITTSBURGH
Located on the Pittsburgh
estate of late-19th-century industrialist Henry Clay Frick, The Frick Pittsburgh is the
steward of collections left as a legacy to the people of
Pittsburgh by Frick's daughter,
Helen Clay Frick. The permanent
collections include fine and decorative arts, cars, carriages,
historic objects, and buildings. The Frick experience includes The
Frick Art Museum, the Car and Carriage Museum, Clayton, the Frick
family Gilded Age mansion, and six acres of beautifully landscaped
lawns and gardens. Also included are an Education Center, the Frick
children's playhouse (designed by renowned architects Alden &
Harlow), a large working greenhouse (also designed by Alden &
Harlow), The Café at the Frick, and the Grable Visitor Center,
which houses the Frick Museum Store.
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