From Old Master to Modernist, the Gill & Lagodich Fine Period & Replica Frames & Mirrors inventory spans over four hundred years and numbers over two thousand period frames, European and American. Founded in TriBeCa in 1991, our gallery continues to provide custom framing services, collection appraisals, curatorial and identification expertise to museums and private collectors, architects, interior designers, and interested individuals.
Exhibitions, Lectures, Presentations & Gallery Tours Beginning with dedicated frame exhibitions in Santa Monica and Laguna Art Museum in 1996, principals of Gill & Lagodich have lectured on the subject of period frame history, fabrication, and restoration; presented walk-through gallery talks in their own gallery and many museums, led museum docent and professional educator training sessions, and conducted hands-on period frame clinics for selected museum, institutional, and private groups, as well as national arts and appraisal conferences.
Gill & Lagodich antique and replica frames have appeared in magazine ads, editorials, and numerous performances from the Metropolitan Opera stage to television productions (Law & Order, Blacklist) and feature films. With the same historical accuracy, attention to period detail and hand-craftsmanship we give all our museum framing projects, Gill & Lagodich provided 41 antique and custom-made replica frames for the pivotal Metropolitan Museum scenes in Warner Bros. 2019 movie adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel “The Goldfinch”.
Gill & Lagodich Studios produce the highest quality gilded and wood antique frame restoration, sizing services, custom-antiqued mirror glass to fit in our frames, custom-made frame replicas, and fabrication of contemporary gilded and patinated wood, gessoed, and ebonized frames designed by artists, architects, decorators, and our own in-house designers. Many frames are available as prop rentals for print ads and movie shoots.
We are the oldest extant antiques emporium in Manhattan's TriBeCa neighborhood. Est. 1991.
our MUSEUM, HISTORIC HOME, AND INSTITUTIONAL CLIENTS INCLUDE:
American Museum of Western Art, Art Bridges Foundation, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Birmingham Museum of Art, Bonham’s Auctions, Brooklyn Museum, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Christie's Auctions, Chrysler Museum of Art, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Cincinnati Art Museum, Colby College Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Cummer Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Dayton Art Institute, Denver Art Museum – Petrie Institute of Western American Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Florence Griswold Museum, The Fralin Museum of Art – University of Virginia, Georgia Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Greenville County Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (G&L frames hang in New York, Berlin, Bilbao, Abu Dhabi), Harvard Art Museums, High Museum of Art, The Hispanic Museum & Library, Hood Museum of Art – Dartmouth College, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art – University of Oklahoma, Joslyn Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MFA Boston, MFA Houston, MFA St. Petersburg, McNay Art Museum, Mead Art Museum – Amherst College, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mint Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, The Morgan Library & Museum, Morris Museum, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of American Finance, Museum of the American Revolution, Museum of the City of New York, National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Newark Museum, New Britain Museum of Art, The New York Academy of Medicine, New-York Historical Society, North Carolina Museum of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts — PAFA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philbrook Museum of Art, The Philips Collection – Smithsonian Institution, Phoenix Art Museum, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art — University of Notre Dame, Rennie Museum (Vancouver), Rockwell Museum of Western Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, The San Diego Museum of Art, Sotheby's Auctions, Springfield Museums, Stanley Museum of Art – University of Iowa, Telfair Museums, Terra Foundation of American Art, Tyler Museum of Art, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center – Vassar College, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Williamstown Art Conservation Center, Winterthur Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Yale Center for British Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.
GILL & LAGODICH owners Simeon Lagodich and Tracy Gill at THE (UN)FAIR exhibition, March 2014. photo credit: Eraj Asadi.
Frame consultants Simeon Lagodich and Tracy Gill in conversation with Stephanie Heydt, the High Museum’s Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art. In this Curator Close-Up, peek behind-the-scenes into the work Stephanie undertook to enhance the galleries by pairing American paintings with appropriate antique frames. Working with the High for nearly two decades, Gill & Lagodich have framed forty paintings and restored four period frames from the museum’s collection to date, including an important Stanford White grille frame original to Thomas Wilmer Dewing’s “A Reading,” 1909. Watch video here.
Frame It Up! Changing Fashions of American Frames 18th- to 20th-Century LIVE (ZOOM) EVENT with STEPHANIE HEYDT, TRACY GILL, and SIMEON LAGODICH. An evening devoted to American frames and their fascinating history. This virtual event explored the changing styles of frame fashion from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. This special focus comes at the conclusion of a multiyear special initiative to examine and upgrade frames for the High’s collection. Stephanie Heydt, Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art, was in conversation with frame historians Simeon Lagodich and Tracy Gill, founders of Gill & Lagodich Fine Period Frame Gallery, New York. The evening included a presentation on American frame history, a tour of the High’s American art collection, and a Q&A session to field questions about the “art around the art”—the art of the frame. View the entire evening on YouTube; fast-forward to Tracy Gill’s presentation, American frames at the High Museum 1790 to 1960; and Q&A with Simeon Lagodich followed by audience questions.