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  • VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS TO ÉMILE BERNARD A PROMISED GIFT OF THE THAW COLLECTION TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY

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    The Morgan Library has received from the collection of Eugene and Clare Thaw a promised gift of twenty letters written by the great postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).
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  • FRED EBB COLLECTION OF GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED TO MORGAN LIBRARY

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    The Morgan Library announced today that legendary Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb (1928–2004) bequeathed to the Morgan his collection of more than forty drawings and watercolors by twenty-two different artists, largely those associated with German expressionism and the secessionist movement in Vienna.
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  • BABAR JOINS MORGAN LIBRARY'S COLLECTION OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS

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    The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired the manuscript and illustrations of The Story of Babar the Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (1899–1937) and the illustrations for Babar's Cousin: That Rascal Arthur by Laurent de Brunhoff (b. 1925).
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  • LATEST TREASURES FROM THE VAULT SERIES AT THE MORGAN OPENS TODAY

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    Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series, features works drawn from these diverse collections in the sumptuous setting of Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library.
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  • THE MORGAN CELEBRATES THE ICONOCLAST ALFRED JARRY

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    Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being, January 24 through May 10, 2020
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD MAJOR EXHIBITION THIS FALL CELEBRATING THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF CHARLES DICKENS

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    Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was Britain's first true literary superstar. In his time, he attracted international adulation on an unprecedented scale, and many of his books became instant classics.
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  • EIGHTY OUTSTANDING NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH DRAWINGS FROM THE LOUVRE TO GO ON VIEW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM 

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    This fall The Morgan Library & Museum will host an exhibition of eighty of the Musée du Louvre's finest drawings by artists working in France from the onset of the Revolution in 1789 through the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM RECEIVES ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE PHILIP GLASS OPERATIC MASTERPIECE EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH

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    In 1976 composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson redefined opera with the debut in Avignon, France, of Einstein on the Beach. The nearly five-hour, non-narrative work broke a host of operatic conventions and would become the most celebrated of the many collaborations between these two giants of the musical and theatrical stage.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM ACQUIRES ASHLEY BRYAN’S SAIL AWAY

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    The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to announce the acquisition of the preliminary drawings and collages that appear in Ashley Bryan’s 2015 book Sail Away (Simon & Schuster).
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  • NEW EXHIBITION OF J. D. SALINGER LETTERS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM SHOWS A YOUNG WRITER BALANCING CYNICISM AND HOPE

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    "Lose not heart": J. D. Salinger's Letters to an Aspiring Writer, a revealing collection of J. D. Salinger's nine letters and postcards to Marjorie Sheard, an aspiring Canadian writer on view from September 10, 2013 to January 12, 2014.
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