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- Washington Post
At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
NEW YORK — For decades, visitors to the Frick Collection passed a magnificent staircase with an ornamental railing and giant candelabras on the landing, flanking an elaborate screen hiding the museum's pipe organ. The second floor of the old mansion on Fifth Avenue was where the Frick family once carried on with domestic life, above the monumental rooms of the ground floor, which housed one of the finest collections of art ever assembled by a private individual.
