Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
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To mark the 2024 centennial of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene.
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American artist Walton Ford and Jennifer Tonkovich, our Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints, discuss the artist’s current exhibition Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio. Ford established his reputation in the 1990s with his monumental watercolor paintings of wild
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September 30, 2016 through January 2, 2017A leading French artist of the twentieth century, Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) eschewed traditional notions of beauty in art in favor of what he perceived as more authentic forms of expression, inspired by graffiti, children’s drawings, and the creations of psychiatric patients.
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This presentation provides an overview of the exhibition Word and Image: Martin Luther's Reformation, highlighting a few pieces and the overall themes.
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February 10 through November 8, 2026
In his landmark 1800 treatise on landscape painting, Elements of Practical Perspective, Pierre Henri de Valenciennes lamented the difficulty of portraying the sun’s light using oil paint. An artist, he explained, cannot look at the blazing body for longer than a moment, lest they be dazzled, and even if they could, “as there is no color in nature that is luminous by itself, the painter is very limited in the means he uses to copy the light of nature. So we laugh at the vain efforts made by an artist when he wants to imitate the color of the sun.”
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TREASURES FROM THE VAULT: AN ONGOING EXHIBITION SERIES AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
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Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Divina commedia, Florence, Italy, 1345–1355, MS M.676.
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In 1902 Pierpont Morgan hired the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to build a library adjacent to his brownstone on 36th Street and Madison Avenue.
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Co-curators Dale Stinchcomb and Juliette Wells show some of their favorite letters by Jane Austen in the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250.
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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
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