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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

From Rembrandt to van Gogh: Dutch Drawings from the Morgan presented highlights from the Morgan's outstanding collection of Dutch drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Blaise Cendrars, born Frédéric Louis Sauser, was a catalyst in some of the explosive artistic innovations of the early twentieth century.

Hujar: Contact offers an unprecedented look into the life, times, and creative evolution of a master photographer.

The Morgan will present the first public presentation of nine revealing letters and postcards written by J. D. Salinger to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer, between 1941 and 1943.

By Any Means brings together about twenty innovative works from the Morgan’s collection, including many recent acquisitions, by artists such as John Cage, Sol LeWitt, Vera Molnar, Robert Rauschenberg, Betye Saar, Gavin Turk, and Jack Whitten.

In the century since its founding as a public institution, the Morgan’s collections have grown dramatically, deepening the core assembled by J. Pierpont Morgan and his librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, who became the first Director of the institution.

This exhibition examines the ways in which the artists, writers, and composers represented in the Morgan's collection used animals to think and create.

In the 1950s the young, provocative writers now known as the Beat Generation emerged onto the American literary scene. Heavily inspired by European Surrealism and the jazz culture of Black America, the Beats were experimental and politically dissident in both their lifestyles and written work.

Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan marks the first time the Morgan has gathered these spectacular volumes together in a single exhibition.