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Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers

January 18 through April 13, 2008

Close Encounters showcases a group of sixty-seven portraits of notable subjects by Irving Penn (b. 1917), acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum in 2007.

MORGAN LIBRARY RECEIVES MAJOR REMBRANDT LANDSCAPE DRAWING AS GIFT

Press release date

Tuesday, February 1, 2000

The Morgan Library announced today that it has acquired, through the generosity of an anonymous friend, an extraordinary pen-and-ink landscape drawing by Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606–1669). Dating to around 1650, it depicts a panoramic view of a bulwark and a group of houses seen from the walls of the city of Amsterdam.

Press

Studies of Michelangelo's Samson and the Philistines (recto and verso)

Tintoretto

1518-1594

2005.234

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Young Concert Artists: Do-Hyun Kim, piano

Join the captivating pianist Do-Hyun Kim in a specially recorded concert from Mixon Hall at Cleveland Institute of Music, featuring Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332, Robert Schumann's Fantasiestüke, Op.