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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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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October 23, 2026 through January 31, 2027This exhibition brings together, for the first time, a remarkable group of drawings, etchings, and paintings to highlight the often overlooked but formative presence of migrants, immigrants, exiles, and refugees in Rembrandt’s world and work.
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June 6 through September 17, 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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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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May 10 through September 2, 2013This show is the first-ever museum exhibition devoted to Matthew Barney's drawings and includes approximately 100 works.
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March 2 through May 20, 2012This exhibition examines the ways in which the artists, writers, and composers represented in the Morgan's collection used animals to think and create.
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May 18 through September 23, 2012The exhibition features striking examples by great masters of the period, including Paris Bordone, Vittore Carpaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Jacopo Tintoretto, Titian, and Paolo Veronese.
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December 11, 2018 through August 25, 2019During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.
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September 14, 2021 through January 9, 2022As both artists and patrons, women played an important role in the development of the natural sciences in the early modern period.
