1999-2000

The Great Experiment: George Washington and the American Republic

September 16, 1999 through January 9, 2000

Approximately 100 manuscripts, letters, rare printed documents, objects, maps, and published writings—drawn primarily from the collections of the Morgan; the Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the Morgan; and the Huntington Library—were included.

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New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900–1950

May 20 through August 29, 1999

This milestone exhibition—the Morgan's first devoted exclusively to twentieth-century art—served as the centerpiece of the institution's yearlong celebration of its seventy-fifth anniversary.

The Wormsley Library: A Personal Selection by Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E.

January 27 through May 2, 1999

Over one hundred masterpieces from Sir Paul Getty's renowned collection were on view at the Morgan

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