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THE MORGAN ACQUIRES IMPORTANT DRAWINGS BY DAVID HOCKNEY, MARTIN PURYEAR, AND JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT

Press release date

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the acquisition of three major drawings by David Hockney, Martin Puryear, and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. Each is a valuable addition to a drawings collection at the Morgan that is considered one of the greatest in the world.

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Venus Embracing Cupid Who Pierces her Breast

Follower of Bartholomeus Spranger

1546-1611

ca. 1600

1981.36

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Untitled

Georg Baselitz

1938-

1984

2022.107

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Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

Bucaniers of America: : or, A true account of the most remarkable assaults committed of late years upon the coasts of the West=Indies, by the bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, both English and French ... especially, the unparallel'd exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, our English Jamaican hero ... / Written originally in Dutch, by John Esquemeling, one of the bucaniers ... and thence translated into Spanish, by Alonso de Bonne-maison ... Now faithfully rendred into English..

Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)

London : Printed for William Crooke, at the Green Dragon without Temple-bar., 1684-1685.

PML 3430

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Book

Department

Printed Books

JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

Press release date

Thursday, November 30, 2000

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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David and the Three Heroes

Claude Lorrain

1600-1682

1658

2017.157

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Goddess behind worshiper pouring libation before god holding plow placing foot upon mountain

between 2112 and 2004 B.C.

Morgan Seal 290

Southern Mesopotamia.

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Cylinder seal

Department

Seals and Tablets

Meet Belle da Costa Greene

Ongoing

Belle da Costa Greene: A Portrait Gallery | Paintings

Laura Coombs Hills (1859–19520 Belle da Costa Greene, 1910 Watercolor on ivory; 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (14.6 × 10.8 cm) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950; AZ164

A compleat treatíse on perspective : in theory and practice; on the true principles of Dr. Brook Taylor. Made clear, in theory, by various moveable schemes and diagrams; and reduced to practice, in the most familiar and intelligent manner ...

Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.

London : Printed for the author..., 1779.

PML 75981

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Book

Department

Printed Books