The Age of Elegance: The Joan Taub Ades Collection
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.
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.
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs
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.
The exhibition features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, demonstrating the iconic artist's characteristic daring and inventiveness.
Great European Libraries: Photographs by Massimo Listri
December 10, 2010, through January 9, 2011
The Morgan Library & Museum presents an exhibition of photographs by Massimo Listri documenting iconic European libraries that similarly use fine wood, marble, and other precious materials to create an opulent setting for books.
Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961–1968
September 24, 2010, through January 2, 2011
An extraordinary new exhibition organized by The Morgan Library & Museum, opening September 24, presents an important series of large-scale, black-and-white works as a group for the first time and examines Lichtenstein's less known exploration of the medium of drawing.
Anne Morgan's War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917–1924
September 3 through November 21, 2010
This exhibition brings to life the extraordinary work undertaken by a small team of American women volunteers who left comfortable lives in the United States to devote themselves to relief work in France during and after World War I.
