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The Center for the History of Collecting is a research institute of the Frick Art Reference Library, which is attached to The Frick Collection. It promotes and sponsors the study of the history of collecting.

History
Housed in the Frick Art Reference Library at 10 East 71st Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenue) in New York City, the Center for the History of Collecting was established in 2007, to encourage and support the study of the formation of collections of fine and decoration arts, both public and private, in Europe and the United States from the Renaissance to the present day. The Center brings together scholars engaged in research that reflects many facets of cultural history. It offers fellowships and seminars, hosts symposia and study days, and creates the tools needed for access to primary documents generated by art collectors and dealers. The Center has an active publications program and awards a biennial book prize to the author of a distinguished publication on the History of Collecting in America.

Talks and Publications
Between 2007- 2015, The Center for the History of Collecting organized the following thematic symposia on the history of collecting: The proceedings of several symposia have been published as books, and the Center is currently co-publishing a book series on the history of collecting that draws on the scholarship presented in the symposia. The Center also organizes graduate and undergraduate seminars, graduate workshops, and study days that contextualize major museum exhibitions within the history of collecting. In addition, it facilitates oral and video histories of dealers and collectors who have played a formative role in shaping American collecting during the twentieth century. In this effort, it has partnered with the Archives of American Art on a two-year project to produce ten oral histories of collectors.
 * May 2015 – Seen through the Collector’s Lens: 150 Years of Photography
 * January 2015 – El Greco Comes to America: The Discovery of a Modern Old Master
 * May 2014 – The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
 * September 2013 – Going for Baroque: Americans Collect Italian Paintings of the 17th and 18th Centuries
 * March 2013 – Money for the Most Exquisite Things: Bankers and Collecting from the Medici to the Rockefellers
 * March 2012 – The Dragon and the Chrysanthemum: Collecting Chinese and Japanese Art in America
 * May 6, 2011 – Reflections across the Pond: British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response
 * November 2010 – A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America
 * March 2010 – The Collector’s Choice: Art on Display in American Private Collections
 * May 2009 – Holland’s Golden Age in America: Collecting the Art of Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals
 * March 2009 – The American Artist as Collector: From the Enlightenment to the Post-War Era
 * November 2008 – Collecting Spanish Art: Spain’s Golden Age and America’s Gilded Age
 * April 2008 – Power Underestimated: American Women Art Collectors
 * February- March 2008 – Turning Points: Modern Art Collecting 1913-
 * May 19, 2007 – Turning Points in Old Masters Collecting, 1830- 1940

Digital Scholarship
The Archives Directory for the Center for the History of Collecting is a growing index of dealers, collectors, auction houses and galleries contextualized by historical notes and by the locations of their archival materials. It provides essential information to scholars working in the evolving field of the history of collecting.

Prizes and Fellowships
Each year, the Center grants several short and long term fellowships to pre- and post-doctoral scholars focusing on the history of collecting. It also awards a biennial book prize for a distinguished publication on the history of collecting in America. The book prize honorees include:
 * 2013, Jennifer Farrell, Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art, New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011 (Prize shared with essayists Thomas Crow, Serge Guilbaut, Jan Howard, Robert Stor, and Judith Tannenbaum)
 * 2011, Mary L. Levkoff, Hearst, the Collector, New York: Abrams, 2008.
 * 2009, Julia Meech, Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.