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Past Exhibitions
Ruskin's Italy, Ruskin's England
September 28, 2000, through January 7, 2001
Drawn from the Morgan's Ruskin collections, among the world's most comprehensive, the exhibition explored his sweeping impact through drawings, sketchbooks, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other objects.
More than two hundred dazzling and finely crafted objects of metal, stone, wood, and other prized materials characterize the art of Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur, a traveling exhibition that explored one of the greatest technological achievements of Near Eastern archaeology.
From Bruegel to Rubens: Netherlandish and Flemish Drawings
February 11 through April 30, 2000
Surveying the finest Northern European drawings in the Morgan's collections, this exhibition featured over one hundred works spanning the Gothic through the Flemish Baroque periods.
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.
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.
