The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has received a bequest of more than one hundred drawings and prints from the estate of former director Charles Ryskamp, who died on March 26, 2010. Also included were several literary and historical manuscripts collected by Mr. Ryskamp, who directed the Morgan from 1969 to 1986.

Among the drawings are works by British, French, Italian, Danish, Dutch, and German artists ranging in date from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. The bequest establishes the Danish school at the Morgan with notable works by almost every artist of stature of the Danish Golden Age (1800–1850), including Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853) and Christen Købke (1810–1848). It also greatly extends the holdings of nineteenth-century German artists with sheets by Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), and others.