NEW YORK (AP) — Anne Little Poulet, curator emerita of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, has been named the new director of The Frick Collection.
Poulet becomes the first woman director in the museum's 68-year-old history.
"Anne brings qualities of leadership and connoisseurship to her new assignment," Helen Clay Chace, president of the Frick's board of trustees, said in a statement Monday. Chace said Poulet was extremely experienced in art history, including such areas as sculpture and the decorative arts.
Poulet, co-founder and vice chairman of the board of The French Heritage Society, replaces Samuel Sachs II, who is stepping down after six years. She takes over on Oct. 1.
The Frick is the former residence of the late Henry Clay Frick, a Pittsburgh coal and steel industrialist, philanthropist and art collector. Built in 1913 and 1914, the mansion provides a grand setting reminiscent of the noble houses of Europe for the Frick's vast art collection that includes works by Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir, Titian, Vermeer, Whistler and other masters.
The Frick Art Reference Library next door houses one of the world's leading repositories for historical research in art.