Beginning this fall, The Frick Collection will present an installation featuring a series of new paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman in its Cabinet Gallery. The exhibition, titled Kent Monkman: Officer and Laughing Girl, takes inspiration from Johannes Vermeer’s painting Officer and Laughing Girl in the Frick’s permanent collection.

Monkman’s series expands the histories associated with 17th-century Dutch art by examining global trade and colonization during Vermeer’s era. The paintings feature Monkman’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, seated across from a male figure in a room mirroring Vermeer’s composition, offering a carved pipe to explore five centuries of Indigenous and European encounters.

The exhibition contains five paintings, with each work representing a distinct century from the 1600s to the present. The series incorporates symbols of trade and shifts from cool to warm color tones across the sequence to reflect rising global temperatures.

Visitors will be able to view Vermeer’s original Officer and Laughing Girl nearby in the permanent collection galleries throughout the exhibition’s run. The Frick Collection will accompany the installation with a published catalogue alongside public programming, including a lecture by Monkman, a library workshop, and educator-led studio sessions.

Following its presentation in New York City, the exhibition will travel to the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, in spring 2027. The project continues the Frick’s tradition of inviting contemporary artists to engage directly with its historical holdings.

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