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 30 through October 11, 2026
In the early 1970s, as galleries and dealers of photography multiplied in New York City and other major cities, the medium began to gain a firm foothold in the art world. Richard L. Menschel, who would become one of the field’s most prominent patrons, avidly collected not just photographs but also the printed matter that reflected the burgeoning market, such as gallery and museum announcements, price updates, invitations to lectures and symposia, and fliers offering guidance to novice collectors.
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May 5 through September 13, 2026
Objects 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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January 25 through April 21, 2013Bringing together more than 160 works on paper by such iconic artists as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, and Joan Miró, this is the first major exhibition to explore the central role of drawing in surrealism, one of the most important movements in twentieth-century art.
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September 23, 2011 through February 12, 2012Charles Dickens at 200 celebrates the bicentennial of the great writer's birth in 1812 with manuscripts of his novels and stories, letters, books, photographs, original illustrations, and caricatures.
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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.
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September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019At the end of the 1520s, at the time of the siege that brought to an end the last Florentine Republic (1529–1530), the painter Jacopo da Pontormo, (1494–1557) created one of his most moving and groundbreaking paintings, the altarpiece of the Visitation.
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October 15, 2021 through January 23, 2022Imperial Splendor offers a sweeping overview of manuscript production in the Holy Roman Empire, one of the most impressive chapters in the history of medieval art.
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February 11, 2022 through October 23, 2022The nineteenth century in Europe saw the rise of plein air painting, in which artists used oil paint while working outdoors.
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OngoingA museum and independent research library, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913). As early as 1890, Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints.
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August 12, 2024 through May 11, 2025Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century landscape artists often sketched outdoors in oil paint on paper to capture nature from direct observation. Yet as natural as these scenes look, the vantages were chosen or augmented to draw the viewer into the composition.
