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Celebrated as the most notable portrait and landscape painter of Georgian England, Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was also a brilliant and experimental draftsman.

The life and art of Peter Hujar (1934–1987) were rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well-read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance.

Maurice Ravel’s Bolero started out as a ballet score commissioned by dancer Ida Rubenstein. Her troupe danced the composition's first performance at the Paris Opera in 1928. It was an instant hit.

Erica Cialella, Belle da Costa Green Curatorial Fellow, and Philip Palmer, Robert H.

In 2018 the Morgan acquired eleven drawings from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting Black Southern artists and their communities. The artists represented in the acquisition are Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.

Isabelle Dervaux, curator of modern and contemporary drawings, discusses the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: the Black and White Drawings, 1961–1968.

The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to present a symposium held in conjunction with Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection on view June 28 through September 22, 2024.

The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to present a symposium held in conjunction with Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection on view June 28 through September 22, 2024.

The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to present a symposium held in conjunction with Far and Away: Drawings from the Clement C. Moore Collection on view June 28 through September 22, 2024.

Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and finds a less reclusive woman than we thought we knew.