Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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October 4, 2019 through January 12, 2020This exhibition will recognize the sheer scale of Sargent’s achievement as a portrait draftsman.
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September 26, 2014 through January 25, 2015This exhibition showcases Cy Twombly's monumental painting Treatise on the Veil (Second Version), executed in Rome in 1970, and its related drawings, all from the Menil Collection in Houston.
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December 16, 2025 through March 15, 2026
This exhibition explores stories of (mis)identification in drawings by some of nineteenth-century France’s most renowned artists and their followers, including Théodore Chassériau, Charles Damour, Eugène Delacroix, Joseph Ducreux, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Léon Louis Antoine Riesener, examining portraiture’s powers and limitations in capturing histories, personalities, and identities.
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October 30, 2026 through January 31, 2027
Though little known beyond his native Sweden, sculptor and draftsman Johan Tobias Sergel (1740–1814) was one of the most compelling artistic figures of the late eighteenth century. This exhibition—the first dedicated to Sergel outside Europe—will feature a selection of his drawings alongside sculptural works in terracotta, marble, and plaster.
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September 10, 2024 through January 12, 2025Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.
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October 21, 2022 through February 5, 2023One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting. This exhibition celebrates the gift from Baselitz to the Morgan of fifty drawings covering the span of his entire career.
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November 22, 2024 through April 13, 2025When Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of forty, in 1924, few could have predicted the influence his relatively small body of work would have on every realm of thought and creative endeavor over the course of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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June 1, 2021 through September 12, 2021Designing a set for the theater stage presents a unique challenge: How does the artist visually transport live performers into the fictional world of the performance?
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June 11 through September 1, 2002Drawing on the Morgan Library's important collection of children's literature and a recently acquired collection of musical juvenilia, A Child's Garland of Songs: Music for and by Children comprised music manuscripts, printed songbooks, and pictures of young musicians.
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July 16 through September 29, 2024The exhibition Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection, on view upstairs, celebrates the promised gift of works to the Morgan from one of the preeminent private collections of Dutch drawings in America.
