The Frick Art Museum Special Exhibition (7/31/2026)

Friday, July 31, 2026

The Frick Art Museum Special Exhibition is titled: French Moderns: Matisse / Renoir / Degas. We felt the title was a bit misleading, because there were only 2-3 artworks from the masters named.

The Frick Pittsburgh also has the Time-traveling Caterpillar Scavenger Hunt, a search for Gustave the Caterpillar throughout the 5.5 acre site in photos of artwork. The photos with Gustave will be shown with the original artwork.

The exhibit was curated by the Brooklyn Museum with 56 paintings and sculptures that explore major new forms of representation and abstraction forged in France during a period of profound social, cultural, and technological change. It is organized around four themes:

1. Landscape:

The Wave (c 1869, by Gustave Courbet)

Gustave Caterpillar in The Wave

The Vineyards at Cagnes (1908, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

The Regatta (c 1908-1910, by Raoul Dufy)

Robe du Matin/Morning Dress (1946, by Yves Tanguy)

2. Portraits and Figures:

Pourquoi Nâitre Esclave!/Why Born Enslaved!
(1868, by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux)

Dancer at Rest, Hands Behind Her Back,
Right Leg Forward (modeled 1882-1895,
cast 1919-1932, by Edgar Degas)

Gustave the Caterpillar is actually with
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (c 1880, by Degas)

Woman in an Armchair (c 1916-1917,
by Henri Matisse)

The Musician (c 1914-1916, by Marc Chagall)

3. The Body:

Nude Woman Drying Herself (c 1884-1886, by Edgar Degas)

Young Woman of Sparta (1868-1870, by
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot)

Portrait of a Man (c 1866, by Edgar Degas)

Madame Boursier and Her Daughter
(c 1873, by Berthe Morisot)

4. Still Life:

Still Life with Blue Cup (c 1900, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir)

Gustave the Caterpillar in Still Life with Blue Cup

Flowers (1906, by Henri Matisse)

Gustave the Caterpillar in Flowers

Woman with Three Girls (c 1909, by József Rippl-Rónai)

Gustave the Caterpillar in Woman and Three Girls

Composition in Red and Blue
(1930, by Fernand Léger)

Gustave the Caterpillar in Composition
in Red and Blue

The Frick Art Museum Permanent Collection (7/31/2026)

Friday, July, 31, 2026

The Frick Art Museum (1969-1970, by Pratt, Schafer &
Slowik in Italian Renaissance-style) houses Helen Clay Frick's
collection of fine and decorative arts, as well as paintings,
sculpture and porcelains that she had inherited from her father

Still Life with Fruit (1769, by Jan van Os)
was the first of the Old Masters to be
purchased by Henry Clay Frick in 1896

Still Life with Fruit is noted for the details of
water droplets and insects

Madonna and Child with St Elizabeth and
St John the Baptist (c 1523-1530, by
Francesco Bacchiacca) has the bolder
colors of Mannerism

Adoration of the Christ Child (16C, by
the Studio of Andrea della Robbia)

Pastorale: A Peasant Boy Fishing (1732,
by François Boucher)

Boucher's mastery of textures is seen in
the basket and soft fabrics

Chinese Qing Dynasty Vases (18C and c 1730) were
purchased by Henry Clay Frick

Nativity (c 1450, by Giovanni di Paolo)

Giovanni di Paolo's training as a miniaturist is reflected in
details such as the fruit trees and peacock

The Virgin of Humility Crowned by Two Angels
(c 1438, by Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo
aka Sassetta of Sienese painting) was
purchased by Adelaide Howard Childs Frick

St Catherine of Alexandria (14C,
by Francesco di Vannuccio)

Portrait of Charlotte-Marguerite de
Montmorency, Princess of Condé (c 1610,
by Peter Paul Rubens

Next: The Frick Art Museum Special Exhibition.

The Frick Car & Carriage Museum (7/31/2026)

Friday, July 31, 2026

The Frick Car and Carriage Museum houses the Frick's collection of historic carriages and automobiles dating back to the turn of the 20C, the time when the development of the automobile profoundly changed American life.

Car & Carriage Museum (est 1990, expansion 1997 along
with a loan of antique automobiles from the collection
of G Whitney Snyder, who bequeathed his brass
collection to the museum in 1999; 2015 expansion)

Car & Carriage Museum (1997 expansion)

The original carriage house (1955) is now the Education Center

Four-spring Basket Phaeton (c 1903, by Brewster
& Company, New York, NY)

Extension Brougham (c 1895, by William D Rogers,
Son & Company, Philadelphia, PA) owned by the Fricks

Four-passenger Bobsled (c 1900, by the
French Carriage Company, Boston, MA)

Model A Runabout (1901, by Knox
Automobile Company, Springfield, MA)
from the Snyder Collection

Tonneau (1898, by Panhard et Levassor, Paris France)
belonged to the son of Henry Heinz (founder of the
HJ Heinz Company), who drove it in the 1900
French Century Run reaching a speed of 40 mph

Stanley Steamer Model 60 Runabout (1910, by
Stanley Motor Carriage Company, Newton, MA)
performed better than gasoline-powered vehicles on
the hills of Pittsburgh, and did not stall or overheat
in the city streets; it was powerful enough to reach speeds
of 60-70 mph leading to speed regulations

Keystone Six-sixty Roadster (1909, by Munch-Allen
Motor Car Company, Dubois, PA) is an early racing vehicle
from the Snyder Collection; produced for only one year

Keystone Six-sixty Roadster (KSS)

Buick Model 10 Runabout (1908, by
Buick Motor Company, Flint, MI)

Penn 30 Touring Car (1911, by Penn Motor Car Company,
Pittsburgh, PA) from the Snyder Collection

Note the bulb-operated horn, also the hand brake
and the brass acetylene gas generator that provided
the gas to power the headlights

American Austin Coupe (1931, by American Austin Car
Company, Butler, PA) from the Snyder Collection is a
smaller version of the automobile (only about 5' high)
built in response to the Depression (KSS)

Bantam Roadster (1939, by American Bantam Car
Company, formerly the American Austin Car Company)
could travel up to 60 miles on a gallon

Model E Touring Car (1917, by Standard Steel Car
Company, Butler, PA) from the Snyder Collection

Model E Touring Car detail

Next: The Frick Art Museum.