Don't Pick the Frick

Reasons to wait---
Hot summer. Most of the wonderful small works have been loaned out, and the anteroom, filled with the best paintings, off the breakfast room, is closed to visitors!

Reasons to go-
So come for the additions that Helen Clay Frick, his daughter, made this collection from the early middle ages and sculpture. Come for El Greco's "Saint Jerome," over the fireplace in the living room. (My favorite "St. Jerome in His Study" is in Britain's National Gallery--amazing work!)
Stay for the extensive historical film in the Music Room. Appreciate that John Pope made the house even better as a museum than it was as a home...
BUT wait for the winter exhibits.

THUMBS DOWN:
Tourists are going at the pace of their hand-held recorded tour phones, lost in audio land. They walk in front of viewers, irritatingly oblivious to those standing back from the painting, the Frick has created the most smashing of experiences.
More to come- Linnie