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September 30, 2016 through January 2, 2017A 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 LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO HOLD FIRST RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS BY DAN FLAVIN
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MONIKA GRZYMALA TO CREATE LARGE-SCALE WORK AT THE MORGAN THIS SUMMER AS THE MUSEUM CONTINUES ITS ANNUAL SCULPTURE SERIES
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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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CreatedCanterbury, England, 1155-1160.Accession numberMS M.521Department
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CreatedCanterbury, England, 1155-1160.Accession numberMS M.724Department
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CreatedEngland, probably North Yorkshire, ca. 1325-1350.Display Dateca. 1325-1350.Accession numberMS M.890ClassificationDepartment
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Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321, Divina commedia, Florence, Italy, 1345–1355, MS M.676.
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Co-curators Dale Stinchcomb and Juliette Wells show some of their favorite letters by Jane Austen in the exhibition A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250.
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