This display reveals the stories of Belle da Costa Greene, the Morgan's first director, and the women she worked with.
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Online Exhibitions
Belle da Costa Greene and the Women of the Morgan
Woody Guthrie: People Are the Song
Take a virtual tour of the exhibition and listen to the audio guide.
Holbein: Capturing Character
This exhibition explores Holbein’s contributions to Renaissance portraiture and celebrates the era’s sophistication and visual splendor.
Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work in Community
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000), one of the most prolific American poets of the twentieth century, was the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize in any category.
Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden
Browse a selection of drawings from the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett.
Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500
Explore all the manuscripts in the exhibition.
Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South
Browse all the drawings, sketchbooks, and assemblages in the exhibition.
Women Artists and Patrons in the Natural Sciences, 1650–1800
Women played an important role in the development of the natural sciences in the early modern period.
Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection
Browse a selection of bookbindings and drawings from the exhibition.
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities
This exhibition explores the first fifteen years of Shahzia Sikander's career.
Tradition, Innovation, and Response: Stage Designs from the Morgan’s Collection
The works shown here offer a brief overview of European stage design from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.
Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection
For nearly a century, beginning in the 1680s, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most sought-after theater designers in Europe.
Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection
The Gray Collection encompasses drawings produced in Europe and the United States from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
David Hockney: Drawing from Life
Browse drawings, photocollages, watercolors and digital images by one of the master draftsmen of our times.
Almost a Remembrance: Belle Greene’s Keats
This exhibition considers the Morgan’s Keats collection through the lens of the library’s first director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950).