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2013 Young Fellows Ball : Supporters of the Frick and their friends annually look forward to the Young Fellows Ball, now in its fourteenth year and one of the most highly regarded and widely covered social events of the New York season. This year’s Dance of Time, on Thursday, April 4, was sponsored by Donna Karan New York, and took its inspiration from the special exhibition of historic timepieces in the new Portico Gallery, Precision & Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection. About 600 guests filled the elegant Garden Court and Music Room for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and dancing to music spun by DJ Hannah Bronfman. They also enjoyed the special exhibition and stepped back in time in the galleries that were once the private residence of Henry Clay Frick and his family (this great collector carefully assembled a remarkable group of masterpieces including paintings by Degas, Fragonard, Goya, Manet, Rembrandt, Turner, Vermeer, Whistler, and others, as well as Renaissance bronzes, Limoges enamels, and French and Italian furniture). There’s nothing quite like the chance to enjoy the historic Frick mansion at night. In the gift bags, guests received Donna Karan Lenox chopsticks from Donna Karan Home. The bags also included products from Chantecaille Beauté, Financier Patisserie, Tervis Tumbler Co., the Frick’s Museum Shop, and gift cards from Uber and onefinestay. American Harvest Organic Spirit provided vodka, William Grant & Sons provided Hendrick’s Gin, Glenfiddich Single Malt Scotch, and Milagro Tequila. Two wines were graciously donated by Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. Fans of mixology enjoyed three signature cocktails: a grapefruit-flavored Harvest Spring Sparkler; Hendrick’s Breeze, a cranberry cocktail; and a Milagro Tequila Margarita. Caterer Olivier Cheng complemented the elegant, timeless mood of the evening with classic savory food and inspired desserts. Proceeds from the benefit provide essential support for the Frick’s education program, which serves New York City public schools in all five boroughs, and for the Frick Art Reference Library. Photos by Christine A. Butler and John Calabrese.

2013 Young Fellows Ball

Supporters of the Frick and their friends annually look forward to the ...

Updated: Apr 09, 2013 1:43pm PST

2012 Garden Party : The Frick Collection’s summer party made its debut in 2008 and was quickly hailed as one of the most memorable social events of the year. Now held annually, it sold out with about 500 guests attending—an unprecedented response. This benefit reception brought people into the otherwise private outdoor gardens around the mansion and proved to be an apt celebration of the season with cocktails and jazz throughout. Proceeds from the Garden Party support the full range of programs at the Frick, including educational and curatorial initiatives and Library activities. The outdoor gardens of the Frick are highly visible, but seldom entered, and this benefit gives unusual access to them. This year’s event particularly highlighted the grand elevated Fifth Avenue Garden, which is adjacent to the newly opened and award-winning Portico Gallery. The intimate 70th Street Garden (designed by Russell Page and not regularly open to the public either) was open to guests as well, who gathered around the pond of lily pads and lotus. Inside the mansion, attendees strolled through the signature Garden Court and the historic permanent collection galleries, which feature masterpieces by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Fragonard, Holbein, Houdon, Goya, Gainsborough, Velázquez, Renoir, and others. In the Oval Room, they could view the museum’s special exhibition Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court. Cocktails (among them a signature Ivy Gimlet featuring Beluga Vodka) and wine (generously donated by Schneider Selections) were served in the gardens. Refreshments were accompanied by a variety of savory hors d’oeuvres, and later in the evening, passed desserts. A jazz quartet provided music on the terrace in the Fifth Avenue Garden. The evening was underwritten in part by Edmund Hollander Landscape Architects.

2012 Garden Party

The Frick Collection’s summer party made its debut in 2008 and was qui ...

Updated: Jul 24, 2012 12:28pm PST

2012 Young Fellows Ball : Over 600 supporters and their friends descended on the Fifth Avenue mansion that houses The Frick Collection. Amid the fin-de-siècle splendor of the former Frick family residence, the Belle Époque Ball, sponsored by Donna Karan New York, took its inspiration from the current special exhibition Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting (the must-see show brings together nine grand-scale depictions of life in Paris in the 1870s and 1880s, including several iconic images of Parisian dancing couples in fashionable dress). Guests filled the elegant Garden Court and Music Room for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and dancing. They particularly spoke of enjoy this special after-hours access to the mansion…and quite a large number of them found their way into the gallery that features the Renoir exhibition (couples mimicking dancing couples in the paintings). In fact, more guests were spotted lingering in the galleries, in general, than ever before….enjoying masterpieces collected around the turn of the twentieth century by Henry Clay Frick: paintings by Degas, Fragonard, Goya, Manet, Rembrandt, Turner, Vermeer, Whistler, and others.

2012 Young Fellows Ball

Over 600 supporters and their friends descended on the Fifth Avenue ma ...

Updated: Mar 26, 2012 1:31pm PST

2011 Young Fellows Ball : The keenly anticipated Young Fellows Ball brought 600 supporters and their friends to the remarkable Fifth Avenue mansion that houses The Frick Collection. This year's event, Bal de Chinoiserie, took its inspiration from fanciful, Eastern and Eastern-inspired objects popular in the homes of Western art collectors since the seventeenth-century. On display in the museum galleries and Reception Hall are many fine examples of blue and white and famille noir porcelains from China. Several upstairs hallways in the former 1914 residence bear whimsical chinoiserie painted ceilings replete with monkeys dressed in eighteenth-century Western fashions, seated figures (warriors, Japanese and Chinese courtesans, elders, and others), exotic birds, dragons, dramatic rock formations, lanterns, and pagodas. Such motifs were incorporated into the decorative scheme that transformed the mansion on this very special evening and were also be found in the sartorial choices of the Frick's guests at Bal de Chinoiserie. Click here for more information: http://www.shopfrick.org/support/yfball2011.htm

2011 Young Fellows Ball

The keenly anticipated Young Fellows Ball brought 600 supporters and t ...

Updated: Mar 11, 2011 2:05pm PST

2010 Young Fellows Ball : To mark the Frick’s anniversary in 2010, the museum has created a year-long series of celebrations, programs, and new offerings, the true kick-off of which was the Diamond Deco Ball on February 25. This keenly anticipated event was the eleventh annual fundraiser hosted by the museum’s Young Fellows. As was the case this winter, the Young Fellows Ball is frequently heralded by The New York Times as one of the “Most Memorable Parties of the Year.” In 2010, the museum turned the clock back seventy-five years for an elegance-infused art deco soiree, the core of which occurred in the Garden Court and Music Room, which were added to the residence in 1935 by the celebrated architect John Russell Pope. Despite the severe and worsening snowstorm that raged throughout the afternoon and all evening (shutting Fifth Avenue down at one point), attendance at the 2010 Young Fellows Ball was absolutely fantastic. Over 630 people braved the weather and, once inside, enjoyed the complete comfort of the former Frick mansion. Over $235,000 was raised in support of the education program, in the process. Leaving was slow, given the weather and layers of clothing needed to venture out, but then again, nobody wanted to go anyway. Could have turned into an unprecedented sleep over…(but didn’t, thanks to a fleet of car services).

2010 Young Fellows Ball

To mark the Frick’s anniversary in 2010, the museum has created a year ...

Updated: Mar 04, 2010 12:58pm PST

2009 Young Fellows Ball : Considered one of the most enchanting rooms in all of New York City, The Frick Collection gallery named after French eighteenth-century artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), inspired the romantic theme of the 2009 Young Fellows Ball. Featured in the room is the artist’s masterpiece, The Progress of Love, a series of panels commissioned by Madame du Barry, the controversial mistress of France’s King Louis XV. The cycle of love depicted takes viewers full circle, from approach/flirtation to meeting to consummation to reflection upon past love letters, to reverie. The clever invitation and the event title referred to Les Liaisons Dangereuses, a popular novel of the period by Choderlos de Laclos, wherein seduction and intrigue unfold through a series of letters.

2009 Young Fellows Ball

Considered one of the most enchanting rooms in all of New York City, T ...

Updated: Mar 19, 2009 12:08pm PST

2008 Young Fellows Ball : On March 12, 2008, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted their ninth annual Ball. The theme of the party was Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), in conjunction with the special loan exhibition of Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice. More than 700 people attended the celebration to benefit Education programs at The Frick Collection. The evening was sponsored by fashion designer Elie Saab and jewelry designer Ivanka Trump.” For more information, see: http://www.shopfrick.org/support/yfball2008.htm. For information about photography for use by the press, on Web sites or blogs, please contact the Press Office http://www.frick.org/press/index.htm.

2008 Young Fellows Ball

On March 12, 2008, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted th ...

Updated: Mar 17, 2008 12:35pm PST

2007 Young Fellows Ball : On March 1, 2007, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted their eighth annual Ball. The theme of the party was the Hunt Ball in conjunction with the exhibition George Stubbs (1724 – 1806): A Celebration. More than 700 people attended the celebration to benefit Education programs at The Frick Collection. The evening was sponsored by designer Angel Sanchez and the theme was “Dress to exhilarate.” For more information, see: http://www.shopfrick.org/support/yfball2007.htm. For information about photography for use by the press, on Web sites or blogs, please contact the Press Office http://www.frick.org/press/index.htm.

2007 Young Fellows Ball

On March 1, 2007, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted the ...

Updated: Mar 07, 2007 11:24am PST

2006 Young Fellows Ball : On March 9, 2006, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted their seventh annual Ball. The theme of the party was Tango and Tapas in conjunction with the exhibition Goya’s Last Works. This also was reflected in the dress code, “Black Tie, Toreador, Dress to Tango” and many guests were dressed in elegant creations by fashion designer Vera Wang and jewelry by Harry Winston. This event raised more than $275,000, which will support the Frick’s Education Program. For more information, see: http://www.shopfrick.org/support/yfwinterball2006.htm. For information about photography for use by the press, on Web sites or blogs, please contact the Press Office http://www.frick.org/press/index.htm.

2006 Young Fellows Ball

On March 9, 2006, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted the ...

Updated: Feb 28, 2007 7:02am PST

2005 Young Fellows Ball : On February 24, 2005, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted their sixth annual Winter Ball. The Vice-Chairs were Lisa Gorrivan, Robert Lindgren, and Catherine Sitrick Shepard. “A Dance in the Golden Age” drew its inspiration from the great Old Masters in the Collection, specifically Vermeer and Rembrandt. The theme of this year’s party was reflected in the dress code, “Black Tie, Fur, and 17th-Century Chic,” and many guests were suitably attired in elegant creations by fashion designer J. Mendel and jewelry designed by David Yurman, two of the three co-chairs for the evening (First Republic Bank was the third co-sponsor).

2005 Young Fellows Ball

On February 24, 2005, the Young Fellows of The Frick Collection hosted ...

Updated: Oct 25, 2006 7:03am PST

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The Frick Collection includes masterpieces of European painting, major works of sculpture (among them one of the finest groups of small bronzes in the world), superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Old Master and nineteenth-century works on paper, Limoges enamels, porcelains, and other works of remarkable quality.

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