Colin B. Bailey is the Associate Director and the Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection in New York. He joined the Frick in 2000.
Education:
Doctorate, Oxford University, 1985
Background:
Mr. Bailey came to The Frick Collection from the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, where was Deputy Director and Chief Curator since January 1998, and was Chief Curator since 1995. He has held a variety of other posts in museums across the United States, among them the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, where he was Senior Curator from 1990 to 1994 and Curator of European Painting and Sculpture from 1989 to 1990; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as Assistant Curator for European Painting and Sculpture from 1985 to 1989; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu where was a Fellow from 1983 to 1984.
He has authored several books and catalogues, among them: The Loves of the Gods: Mythological Painting from Watteau to David (Rizzoli International, 1992); Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age (Yale University Press, 1997); Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris (Yale University Press, 2002), for which he won the 2004 Mitchell Prize for the best art history book for 2002 and 2003; The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Eighteenth-Century Genre Painting (National Gallery of Canada and Yale University Press,2003); and Renoir’s Landscapes 1867–1883 (National Gallery, London, 2007). He is also the author of Building The Frick Collection: An Introduction to the House and Its Collections (Scala, 2006), the institution’s first publication focused on the famed Fifth Avenue mansion that today serves as the museum’s remarkable setting.
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