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Perspectives from a Conservator and a Curator

In January 2021, the Morgan acquired an exceptional group of twenty prints by Martin Puryear.

The Morgan Library & Museum is an important research center for scholars. We make our collections as accessible as possible within the limits set by their rarity and fragility.

Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, interviews George Goldner, former Curator of Paintings and Drawings, J.

Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, California artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsman since he began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist.

Our curator John Marciari discusses our current exhibition Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi which examines Giovanni Battista Piranesi as a versatile draftsman and his vigorous drawings.

Take a closer look at three touching, humanist drawings by Rembrandt (1606–1669) in the Morgan's collection. John Pierpont Morgan loved Rembrandt. He owned 500 prints by Rembrandt, and in 1909 acquired his first drawings by the artist.

Barbara Wolff and Roger Wieck

For nearly a century, members of three generations of the Bibiena family were the most highly sought theater designers in Europe.

This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome of the painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit, an important early work by Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571–1610).