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  • Walt Whitman: Bard of Democracy

    “Comrades!

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  • Crafting Cruelty: Hogarth’s Innovative Drawing Methods

    William Hogarth (1697–1764) achieved substantial artistic and commercial success in his lifetime, both as a printmaker and as a painter. Despite his enduring fame, Hogarth’s drawings are today little known and rarely studied.

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  • STUDYING NATURE: OIL SKETCHES FROM THE THAW COLLECTION

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    Exhibition Focuses on the Artistry and Technique of the Sketch by Practitioners such as Valenciennes, Corot, and Constable
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  • REMBRANDT’S EARLIEST MASTERPIECE, JUDAS RETURNING THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, TO BE EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE U.S. AT THE MORGAN

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  • THE MORGAN EXPLORES THE CAPTIVATING BOOK DESIGNS OF MODERN MASTER HENRI MATISSE

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    Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts, on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from October 30 to January 18, 2016, brings together thirty of these modern masterpieces and explores Matisse’s creative process.
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  • THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM ADDS SIGNIFICANT NEW WORKS TO ITS DRAWINGS AND PRINTED BOOKS COLLECTIONS

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    A beautifully preserved, large-scale drawing by the Florentine Renaissance artist Jacopo Zucchi (ca. 1540–1596) and a masterwork of English literature, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, (1591) were recently acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum.
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  • Lecture | Colin B. Bailey: Renoir's Creative Process

    Renoir’s paintings are icons of Impressionism, but his drawings, watercolors, and pastels are far less widely known. In fact, drawing remained central to his artistic practice over the course of a long and varied career. In this lecture, Dr. Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J.

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  • Hebrew Illumination for Our Time: The Art of Barbara Wolff

    February 6 through May 3, 2015
    The exhibition offers startling illuminations—recent gifts to the Morgan—created by this contemporary artist.
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  • JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

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    The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.
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  • Seated Male Youth

    Peter Paul Rubens
    1577-1640
    ca. 1613
    I, 232
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    Drawing
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    Drawings and Prints
    Drawings of sitting male figure with hands clasped in from of him.
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