THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM NAMES JOHN MARCIARI TO HEAD ITS DEPARTMENT OF DRAWINGS AND PRINTS

Press release date: 
Wednesday, June 11, 2014

John Marciari, an independent curator and scholar who most recently held the position of Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art, has been chosen to lead the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Morgan Library & Museum.

With the title of Charles W. Engelhard Curator and Department Head, Marciari will oversee a collection that is renowned throughout the world. Drawings and Prints is one of the largest of the Morgan’s curatorial departments and its approximately 25,000 works span the fourteenth century through the nineteenth century. The department is especially strong in drawings from the Italian, French, Dutch, and British schools, and the list of important artists represented is vast, ranging from Michelangelo and Raphael to Dürer, Rubens, Fragonard, David, Watteau, Gainsborough, Constable, Turner, Ingres, and Degas, among other notables. The department also has the largest and finest collection of Rembrandt etchings in America.

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