A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany
May 30 through September 7, 2014
The exhibition will include thirty-seven works that represent the two central elements of the Romantic conception of landscape: close observation of the natural world and the importance of the imagination.
Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection
May 20 through September 7, 2014
This exhibition brings together nearly one hundred outstanding works from the collection, including first editions, manuscripts, letters, and revised galley proofs.
The art and craft of the woodcut was a source of inspiration for a small, influential group of European and American artists whose work helped shape the modern book in the decades immediately preceding and following the turn of the twentieth century.
Visions and Nightmares: Four Centuries of Spanish Drawings
January 17 through May 11, 2014
This exhibition marks the first presentation of Spanish drawings at the Morgan and showcases over twenty sheets from the museum's pre-eminent master drawings collection.
This exhibition of the original manuscript and watercolor drawings—the most comprehensive ever mounted—explores the American origins of a story that reminds us that what matters most can only be seen with the heart.
Leonardo da Vinci: Treasures from the Biblioteca Reale, Turin
October 25, 2013, through February 2, 2014
The Morgan is delighted to present visitors with a unique opportunity to see, for the first time in New York, Leonardo da Vinci's extraordinary Codex on the Flight of Birds, and one of his most celebrated drawings, Head of a Young Woman, together with a selection of other works on paper.
The exhibition will feature nearly one hundred items, drawn primarily from the Morgan's holdings and The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library, two of the most important collections of Poe material in the United States.
"Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer
September 10, 2013, through January 12, 2014
The Morgan will present the first public presentation of nine revealing letters and postcards written by J. D. Salinger to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer, between 1941 and 1943.
Reflections on a Nation: American Writings from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
September 10, 2013, through January 12, 2014
This fall, the Morgan will display a selection of exceptional documents from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, one of the country's foremost archives of Americana.
