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.
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June 6 through September 28, 2014The exhibition features approximately sixty rare and exceptional objects from diverse disciplines that serve as points of departure for exploring some of the fundamental meanings of genius.
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June 10 through September 18, 2022With rarely seen architectural drawings, period photographs, and significant rare books and manuscripts from Morgan’s collection, this exhibition traces the design, construction, and early life of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.
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April 23 through July 7, 2024The Morgan’s collections continually grow and evolve. This presentation features a selection of drawings newly acquired by the Department of Drawings and Prints, which focuses on work created before 1900.
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January 11 through May 8, 2022This display celebrates Kasper’s bequest to the Morgan of eleven works on paper from his collection.
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May 20 through September 4, 2011Jim Dine: The Glyptotek Drawings explores Dine's meditation on the antique world.
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June 7 through October 6, 2024The Morgan celebrates the 100th year of its founding with a series of exhibitions devoted to promised gifts to the museum, including twenty-eight drawings from the holdings of New York–based collectors Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard.
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October 17, 2014 through January 4, 2015The spectacular Crusader Bible is one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts in the world, renowned as much for its unrivalled and boldly colored illustrations as it is for its fascinating history.
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June 8 through September 23, 2012A master orator and writer, Churchill's use of spoken and written words will be explored in this exhibition that covers more than a half century of his life.
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
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September 8, 2017 through January 7, 2018Treasure bindings—book covers encrusted with gold, silver, and gemstones—were a luxury in the Middle Ages.
