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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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  • 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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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS: SEEDS OF KNOWLEDGE: EARLY MODERN ILLUSTRATED HERBALS

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    The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals. Opening October 6, 2023, and on view through January 14, 2024, the exhibition highlights the collection of fifteenth- to seventeenth-century European printed herbals of Dr. Peter Goop, one of the most significant private collections of herbals in the world.
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  • THE MORGAN ADDS STATE-OF-THE-ART WALL CASE TO ITS REVAMPED LOWER LEVEL TO FACILITATE SPECIAL ROTATING EXHIBITIONS

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    The Morgan Library & Museum recently installed a large, custom-fabricated wall case in the lower level of its three-story central court to accommodate ongoing exhibitions of work from its renowned collections of art, literature, music, and photography.
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  • CANVAS AND PAGE…. THE MORGAN EXPLORES HENRY JAMES’S LIFELONG FASCINATION WITH THE VISUAL ARTS

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    Henry James and American Painting, opening at the Morgan Library & Museum on June 9, is the first exhibition to explore the author’s deep and lasting interest in the visual arts and their profound impact on the literature he produced.
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  • THE MORGAN PRESENTS FIRST RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN DUBUFFET

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    Opening at the Morgan Library & Museum on September 30, Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s works on paper.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT EXTRAORDINARY SELECTION OF RARE BOOKBINDINGS

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    Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan, on view from December 5, 2008, through March 29, 2009, presents a selection of outstanding works from the collection.
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  • EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ILLUMINATED ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HANDWRITTEN QUR’ANS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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    The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century.
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  • THE MORGAN COLLABORATES WITH THE GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM TO PRESENT NEW EXHIBITION EXPLORING THE DIVERSE VISUAL LANGUAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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    Beginning February 19 the Morgan Library & Museum explores the history of the medium as a lucid, literate—but not always literal—tool of persuasion in a new exhibition, Sight Reading: Photography and the Legible World.
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  • THE THAW CONSERVATION CENTER OPENS

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    The Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library, a world-class laboratory for the conservation of works on paper—drawings and literary, historical, and music manuscripts—as well as a place for conservation studies, opened in February 2002.
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