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Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings

October 21, 2022 through February 5, 2023

One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting. This exhibition celebrates the gift from Baselitz to the Morgan of fifty drawings covering the span of his entire career.

THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS GEORG BASELITZ: SIX DECADES OF DRAWING

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Friday, October 21, 2022

One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting.

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. Opening February 23 and on view through June 9, 2024, the exhibition tells the life story of Beatrix Potter, one of the twentieth century’s best-loved authors of children’s fiction.

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EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF ILLUMINATED ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HANDWRITTEN QUR’ANS TO BE SHOWN AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

The Morgan Library & Museum is internationally acclaimed for its collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, but it may come as a surprise that it also possesses a number of important Islamic manuscripts dating from the late middle ages to the nineteenth century.

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Light with Arabesques and Foliage

John LaFarge

1835-1910

ca. 1882-1885

1995.21:1

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

The hymnal : as authorized and approved for use by the General Convention for The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord MCMXVI.

New York : Oxford University Press, 1924.

PML 61048.2

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Editing notebook for the film Roseland : autograph manuscript.

Ivory, James, author.

MA 9270

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

The American miniature almanac, for the year of our Lord 1837 / tides calculated for Boston, but by using the Tide Table ...

Boston: : Published and sold by Allen & Company ; New-York : William Minns, [1836]

PML 252779

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Book

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Printed Books

Sketches for a piano method : autograph manuscript, [1810-1849].

[1810-1849].

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

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Music Manuscript

Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers

January 18 through April 13, 2008

Close Encounters showcases a group of sixty-seven portraits of notable subjects by Irving Penn (b. 1917), acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum in 2007.