EUGENE V. THAW, NOTED ART COLLECTOR AND A LIFE TRUSTEE OF THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, ENDOWS CURATORIAL POSITION

Press release date: 
Friday, June 13, 2014

The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that noted drawings collector Eugene V. Thaw, a life trustee of the Morgan and longtime supporter, will endow a curatorial position in the Department of Drawings and Prints.

Since 1975 Mr. Thaw has given the museum more than four hundred master drawings from his private collection and generously contributed to numerous projects and programs. The drawings department at the Morgan is one of its largest, and the institution’s collection is considered among the greatest in the world. Spanning the early Renaissance to the twenty-first century, it includes masterworks from every era and every school.

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