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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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MONIKA GRZYMALA TO CREATE LARGE-SCALE WORK AT THE MORGAN THIS SUMMER AS THE MUSEUM CONTINUES ITS ANNUAL SCULPTURE SERIES
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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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Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.Edinburgh, A. Constable and Co., 1825.PML 44267-70ClassificationDepartment
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Oxford : Printed at the Theater, and are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-yard, London , MDCLXXXI [1681].PML 55181ClassificationDepartment
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Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.London : printed by J[ohn]. M[acock]. for Henry Herringman, at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1674.PML 129650ClassificationDepartment
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CreatedFrance, probably Luxeuil, mid 8th centuryAccession numberMS M.17ClassificationDepartment
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CreatedParis, France, ca. 1515-1525.Accession numberMS M.1147ClassificationDepartment
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Created[ca. 1725]Display Date[ca. 1725]Accession numberMS M.1019Department
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Corréggio, Niccolò da, 1450-1508.Impressa in Venetia : Georgio de Rusconi milanese, nel anno del nostro Signor Mcccccxy [1515], a di 20 Decembrio.PML 196191ClassificationDepartment