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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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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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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.Boston : Thayer and Eldridge, year 85 of the States (1860-61) [i.e. 1860] ([Boston] : George C. Rand & Avery)PML 6071ClassificationDepartment
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Leconte de Lisle, 1818-1894.Paris : Société des Amis du Livre Moderne, 1912.PML 128544ClassificationDepartment
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Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.London : Printed for H. Herringman ..., 1668.PML 6317ClassificationDepartment
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Prints
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Paris : Harrison ; New York : Minton, Balch and Company, [1931]PML 184359ClassificationDepartment
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Lincoln : Published by the Junior Class of the University of Nebraska, [1894]PML 188002ClassificationDepartment
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New York : Printed and sold by William Bradford in the City of New York, 1713.PML 18585ClassificationDepartment
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Musset, Alfred de, 1810-1857.[Paris? : s.n., 1848?]Heineman 513ClassificationDepartment