Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi
January 25 though April 20, 2008
The show focuses on artists who worked on the frescoes, paintings, tapestries, and other decorative work that embellished the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, best known as the home of the Medici dukes.
Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers
January 18 through April 13, 2008
Close Encounters showcases a group of sixty-seven portraits of notable subjects by Irving Penn (b. 1917), acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum in 2007.
Tales and Travels: Drawings Recently Acquired on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund
June 29 through September 23, 2007
On view were more than eighty sheets by French, British, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and German draftsmen from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries.
From Berlin to Broadway: The Ebb Bequest of Modern German and Austrian Drawings
April 20 through September 2, 2007
An extraordinary collection of forty-three early-twentieth-century German and Austrian drawings by some of the leaders of the German expressionist movement and the Vienna Secession was on view in From Berlin to Broadway.
Victorian Bestsellers explored the rise of this cultural phenomenon using original manuscripts, first editions, illustrated editions, and rare printed ephemera, drawn largely from the Morgan's renowned literary collections.
Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings
January 18 through April 8, 2007
Private Treasures provided the public the rare opportunity to view works from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries drawn entirely from an esteemed private collection.
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations featured more than one hundred drawings, collages, and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era.
