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  • Word and Image: Martin Luther's Reformation

    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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  • North Room

    The Librarian's Office is the smallest of the McKim rooms and was the office of Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), Morgan's personal librarian.

  • Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962

    September 30, 2016 through January 2, 2017
    A 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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  • THE MORGAN ANNOUNCES EXTENDED VIEWING HOURS FOR ALICE: 150 YEARS OF WONDERLAND

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  • Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands

    May 20 through September 4, 2011
    This exhibition will explore the evolution of fashionable clothing in Northern Europe—from the fashion revolution of the early fourteenth century to the dawn of the Renaissance.
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  • Exploring France: Oil Sketches from the Thaw Collection

    January 13 through November 15, 2015
    Exploring France is the second exhibition in a planned series drawn from the collection of oil sketches acquired by Morgan Trustee Eugene V. Thaw, who is also an honorary trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and his wife, Clare.
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  • LISTMAKERS—NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM LOOKS AT THIS UNIVERSAL FORM OF DOCUMENTATION AMONG ARTISTS AND WRITERS SHOW FEATURES A WIDE VARIETY OF ITEMS FROM THE COMMON "TO-DO" TO LISTS OF BOOKS TO READ, APPOINTMENTS MADE, AND PLA

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    Beginning June 3, a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates this most common form of documentation by presenting an array of lists made by a broad range of artists, from Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder to H. L. Mencken, Eero Saarinen, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner.
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  • THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE LIFE AND WORK OF LEGENDARY AUTHOR BEATRIX POTTER THROUGH HER RARELY EXHIBITED PICTURE LETTERS

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    On view until January 27, 2013, Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters brings together for the first time twenty-two letters from important American private holdings as well as from three major institutional collections: the Morgan, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University.
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  • THE FIRST RETROSPECTIVE OF MATTHEW BARNEY’S DRAWINGS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM THIS SPRING

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    Exhibition includes nearly one hundred drawings exploring the close relationship between the artist's works on paper and his sculptures and films.
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  • Luminous Color

    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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