The Frick Collection, Garden Sketch Plans A and B RP/1/14/15/1

An ink and pencil design on tracing paper dated April 1976, marked 'Frick Collection, Garden sketch plan A, scale 1/4" = 1 foot' and 'Frick Collection, Garden sketch plan B, scale 1/4" = 1 foot.' Two suggested layouts for the garden are shown; in A, two separate lawns flank a pool in the middle, in B the two grassed areas have been replaced by one lawn with the pool sunk into it.

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.