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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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Tradition, Innovation, and Response: Stage Designs from the Morgan’s Collection

June 1, 2021 through September 12, 2021

Designing a set for the theater stage presents a unique challenge: How does the artist visually transport live performers into the fictional world of the performance?

To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600–1900

September 24 through December 31, 2005

To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors from the Morgan Library, 1600–1900, was a major survey of the Morgan's important collection of British drawings. The basis of this group dates to Pierpont Morgan's well-known 1909 purchase of virtually all the holdings of Charles Fairfax Murray, the English Pre-Raphaelite artist and collector.