2010-2011

September 23 through December 31, 2011

This exhibition features some of the greatest examples of works on paper of the period from Paris's famed Musée du Louvre, including eighty drawings by artists David, Prud'hon, Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, and Corot.

Image of Study for The Death of Sardanapalus
September 9 through November 27, 2011

This exhibition presents seventeen exceptional drawings and three letters by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), one of the greatest draftsman and portraitists in French history.

Image of Odalisque and Slave
July 19 through October 2, 2011

The Living Word is a poetic evocation of the relationship between the written word and its meaning.

Photograph of The Living Word
June 3 through October 2, 2011

The exhibition celebrates this most common form of documentation by presenting an array of lists made by a broad range of artists, from Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder to H. L. Mencken, Eero Saarinen, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner.

Image of Packing List of Adolf Konrad
May 20 through September 4, 2011

This exhibition will explore the evolution of fashionable clothing in Northern Europe—from the fashion revolution of the early fourteenth century to the dawn of the Renaissance.

Image of Delilah Shearing Samson's Hair
May 20 through September 4, 2011

Jim Dine: The Glyptotek Drawings explores Dine's meditation on the antique world.

Image of Glyptotek Drawings
May 13 through August 28, 2011

Over thirty old master drawings by French, Italian, and Northern artists of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries are featured in this exhibition, with a particular concentration of works by eighteenth-century French draftsmen.

Image of Reclining Nude with Outstretched Arm
January 21 through May 22, 2011

With over seventy items on view, the exhibition raises questions about this pervasive practice: what is a diary?

Photograph of Diary of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
February 4 through May 1, 2011

In 2009 when the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon unveiled a previously unknown portrait painting with strong claims to be the only surviving life-time portrait of William Shakespeare, it created an international sensation.

Image of The Cobbe Portrait of William Shakespeare
January 21 through May 1, 2011

Morgan Library & Museum presents over one hundred drawings and photographs from the collection assembled by American fashion designer Herbert Kasper—known simply as Kasper.

Image of An Affenpinscher