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EUGENE V. THAW, NOTED ART COLLECTOR AND A LIFE TRUSTEE OF THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM, ENDOWS CURATORIAL POSITION

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Friday, June 13, 2014

Jennifer Tonkovich will be the first to hold the new position, to be named the Eugene and Clare Thaw Curator of Drawings and Prints.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PURCHASES EXCEPTIONAL PRINT OF ADAM AND EVE BY ALBRECHT DÜRER

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The Morgan Library & Museum announced today the acquisition of an exceptionally fine impression of the engraving Adam and Eve by German master Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528).

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DEFINING BEAUTY: ALBRECHT DÜRER AT THE MORGAN TO OPEN MAY 18

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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

This exhibition is the first in more than twenty years to feature all the Morgan's works by one of the world's iconic artists.

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THE MORGAN PRESENTS FIRST RETROSPECTIVE OF THE DRAWINGS OF JEAN DUBUFFET

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Opening at the Morgan Library & Museum on September 30, Dubuffet Drawings, 1935–1962 is the first museum retrospective of the artist’s works on paper.

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Monday, August 18, 2025

The Morgan Library & Museum is the recipient of a generous gift from William Palmer Johnston of works by Herman Melville.

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Handwriting Is Not Dead: A Conversation with Collector Pedro Corrêa do Lago

When he was just eleven years old Pedro Corrêa do Lago wrote to ask François Truffaut for his signature and received, by return mail, a book inscribed by the French director. Over the ensuing decades Corrêa do Lago built one of the world’s most compelling collections of its kind.

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The French Concept of World History (in Sixty Feet)

Explore this comprehensive scroll that outlines the history of the world from Creation to King Louis XI of France (r. 1461-83).

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Monday, March 30, 2026

Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings from John Ashbery’s Collection, on view from May 1 through October 25, 2026, features selections from a 2019 gift to the Morgan Library & Museum of twenty-eight works on paper from the collection of the American poet John Ashbery (1927–2017), donated by his husband, David K. Kermani.

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A Christmas Carol at The Morgan

NYC-ARTS takes a closer look at A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Guided by Declan Kiely, curator of Literary & Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum, we are encouraged to reconsider the true meaning of Dickens’s work.

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Virgilius. This boke treath [sic] of the lyfe of Virgilius and of his deth and many maruayles that he did in his lyfe tyme by whychcraft and nygramansy thorowgh the helpe of the devyls of hell.

Emprynted in the cytie of Anwarpe : By me, Joh[a]n Doesborcke dwellyng at ye the camerporte, [1518?]]

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