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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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Friday, April 1, 2011

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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Thursday, November 1, 2012

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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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

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.”