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Sir Nicholas Penny, former director of the National Gallery, London, and the Thaw Senior Fellow at the Morgan Drawing Institute for 2018, gave the annual Thaw Lecture on “The Zoomorphic Mask.” He explores the fantastic in Renaissance design, with reference to many other episodes in the history of

It’s not just a façade! The façade of our J. Pierpont Morgan Library building uses a complex ancient Greek building technique that enables the stone to have no visible mortar. The architects, McKim, Mead & White, adapted this technique to account for the variable climate in New York city.

Join Jeffrey F.

A little music for your cozy holiday weekend: listen to violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins play a piece by Fritz Kreisler from 1911. Fritz Kreisler dedicated this piece to the virtuoso Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. It reflects qualities of both composers.

Join Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director of The Morgan Library & Museum, for a special opening night lecture that explores drawings by Rembrandt, Watteau, Degas, Renoir, and other highlights in the exhibition, Liberty to Imagination: Drawings from the Eveillard Gift.

The exhibition Conversations in Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection brings together works from across Europe and the United states, illuminating affinities and tensions in the history of drawing.

Thomas Gainsborough’s paintings and drawings grant the viewer the perspective of a traveler wandering along a winding path encountering both the familiar and the enigmatic.

Perspectives from a Conservator and a Curator

Join Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and Dr. Colin B.