2020–2021

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community

January 28 through June 5, 2022

This exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000).

Book cover of seated figure wearing a yellow dress withb hand-written text saying to Gwen with Love.

Recent Acquisitions: Modern and Contemporary Drawings and Prints

June 25 through October 3, 2021

Nearly twenty years ago, the Morgan decided to expand its collection of drawings and prints into the modern era.

Drawing of abstract hat shape with black lines, and gray blue wash.

Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities

June 18 through September 26, 2021

Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is internationally celebrated for bringing Indo-Persian manuscript-painting traditions into dialogue with contemporary art practice.

Watercolor showing figure with hat surrounded by partial figures and shapes with red, yellow and green earth tones.

Tradition, Innovation, and Response: Stage Designs from the Morgan’s Collection

June 1, 2021 through September 12, 2021

Designing a set for the theater stage presents a unique challenge: How does the artist visually transport live performers into the fictional world of the performance?

Drawing showing interior architectural scene with columns and arches in gray and brown wash."

Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection

May 28 through September 12, 2021

This exhibition is the first in the United States in over thirty years to celebrate these talented draftsmen and marks the promised gift to the Morgan of a group of Bibiena drawings from the collection of Jules Fisher, the Tony-winning lighting designer.

Sublime on the Small Scale

September 29, 2020 through September 12, 2021

The oil sketches displayed here engage with a range of Sublime effects, from the impressive vastness of a mountain range and the thrill of rushing water to the terror of a raging storm.

Oil painting of tall arch over pathway with green vegetation growing to the side and on top in yellow earth tones.

The Morgan Book Project

April 29 through August 15, 2021

The Morgan Book Project, offered free of charge, is an annual extended learning program for NYC students in grades 3–12 in which they produce their own handmade accordion books.

Almost a Remembrance: Belle Greene’s Keats

February 17 through August 15, 2021

Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of his death, this exhibition considers the Morgan’s Keats collection through the lens of the library’s first director, Belle da Costa Greene.

Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection

February 19, 2021 through June 6, 2021

This exhibition celebrates the remarkable collection of drawings assembled by the collecting couple Richard Gray, one of America’s foremost art dealers, and art historian Mary L. Gray.

Édouard Vuillard: Sketches and Studies

February 10 through May 30, 2021

Édouard Vuillard: Sketches and Studies