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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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  • MARGARET HOLBEN ELLIS APPOINTED AS FIRST DIRECTOR OF THE THAW CONSERVATION CENTER

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    The Morgan Library announced the appointment of Margaret Holben Ellis as the first Director of The Thaw Conservation Center at the Morgan Library.
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  • ANNOUNCING THE 2022–2023 SEASON OF MUSIC AT THE MORGAN

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    The Morgan Library & Museum announces its 2022–2023 season of Music at the Morgan that celebrates the intersection between art, literature, and music with engaging concerts inspired by its collections and exhibitions.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM ANNOUNCES MAJOR EXHIBITION AND ACCOMPANYING RESEARCH INITIATIVES ON ITS FOUNDING DIRECTOR BELLE DA COSTA GREENE

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    To mark the 2024 centennial of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950).
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  • LISTMAKERS—NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM LOOKS AT THIS UNIVERSAL FORM OF DOCUMENTATION AMONG ARTISTS AND WRITERS SHOW FEATURES A WIDE VARIETY OF ITEMS FROM THE COMMON "TO-DO" TO LISTS OF BOOKS TO READ, APPOINTMENTS MADE, AND PLA

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    Beginning June 3, a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates this most common form of documentation by presenting an array of lists made by a broad range of artists, from Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder to H. L. Mencken, Eero Saarinen, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner.
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  • HOMELAND FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO CATALOGUE AND DIGITIZE MORGAN LIBRARY'S MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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    The Morgan Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These manuscripts, which represent a thousand years of Western iconography, will be available for the first time in Internet-accessible databases.
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  • JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

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    The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.
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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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  • MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES $10 MILLION FROM EUGENE V. AND CLARE E. THAW CHARITABLE TRUST FOR NEW CONSERVATION CENTER AND ENDOWMENT

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    The Morgan Library, which is now celebrating its seventy-fifth year as a public institution, announced today a $10-million gift from the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust to support conservation activities at the institution.
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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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