The Frick Collection, Disposition Paths and Planted Areas RP/1/14/15/6

An ink and pencil design on tracing paper, marked 'Frick Collection, Disposition paths & planted area, scale 1/4" = 1 foot.' The plan is close to Page’s ‘Design B’ for the Frick Garden (RP/1/14/15/1), although with some modifications, such as the removal of the bird bath and the small trees at the west end of the pool, and changes to the flower beds in the lawn.

One of Russell Page’s few public commissions, his design for the 70th Street garden at The Frick Collection, a museum close to Central Park in Manhattan’s East Side, is an excellent example of his ability to develop his plan around the particularities of the site. Constructed in 1977, it still survives to this day. Its popularity was made evident in 2015 when public protests successfully halted plans to demolish it.