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 October 22, 2023While exploring the volumes in her parents’ library, Karen Bassine Cohen discovered a passion for the nineteenth century.
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October 2, 2020 through May 30, 2021David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most internationally respected and renowned artists alive today.
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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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January 10 through June 4, 2023By the mid-eighteenth century, the Grand Tour, a study trip through Europe with a period of residence in Italy, had become a fixture in the education of European aristocrats and the training of artists.
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February 14 through June 4, 2023Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.
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March 17 through June 21, 2026
The beloved and acclaimed children’s book author Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) was also an avid opera lover who designed sets and costumes for several productions. In 1978 he was invited by Frank Corsaro to create designs for the Houston Grand Opera’s staging of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (1791), which opened two years later. The Magic Flute, one of Sendak’s favorite operas, was the first theatrical production he worked on, and it marked the beginning of many future projects for the opera and ballet.
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February 21 through May 11, 2014The art and craft of the woodcut was a source of inspiration for a small, influential group of European and American artists whose work helped shape the modern book in the decades immediately preceding and following the turn of the twentieth century.
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September 13, 2013, through January 5, 2014This exhibition celebrates the Morgan's Man Booker Prize Collection—the largest American collection devoted to the prize, acquired in 2010.
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February 17 through July 1, 2012This first retrospective of his drawings will include over one hundred sheets representing every phase of his career.
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May 13 through September 14, 2025Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments.
