Frederic Lord Leighton's Flaming June Visits Frick Collection in Summer Exhibition

Frederic Lord Leighton's iconic work, Flaming June, created in 1895, is showcased at the Frick Collection from June 9 to September 6, 2015. This 47 x 47 inch painting comes from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico, where it serves as a highlight of an important Victorian collection. Located at 1 East 70th Street in New York, this exhibition juxtaposes Leighton's art with existing pieces by James Abbott McNeill Whistler. While Whistler's modern style relates to Old Masters like Rembrandt and Van Dyck, Leighton's classical approach embodies a Victorian academicism that saw a revival in the 1960s. Accompanying the exhibition is an oil sketch of the same scene from a private collection. Leighton, the first British artist to achieve peerage, depicts a figure in orange drapery set against a Mediterranean landscape. The painting's square format and gold frame starkly contrast with Whistler's vertical works and cooler color schemes.