Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
THE MORGAN COLLABORATES WITH LONDON'S COURTAULD GALLERY TO EXPLORE THE BEAUTY AND INNOVATION OF BRITISH AND GERMAN ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE DRAWING
At the close of the eighteenth century, while wars and revolutions rocked Europe, landscape art began a quiet transformation. British and German artists were pioneers in forging a new type of landscape, abandoning the certainties and formulas of the past in favor of a revitalized representation of the natural world. A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany (May 30 –
September 7) traces the unfolding of this new Romantic sensibility with a selection of drawings, watercolors, and oil sketches chosen from the renowned collections of the Morgan Library & Museum and London’s Courtauld Gallery—capturing its beginnings in the Age of Enlightenment to its full flowering in the Romantic art of J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840).