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The Morgan Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These manuscripts, which represent a thousand years of Western iconography, will be available for the first time in Internet-accessible databases.

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VINCENT VAN GOGH LETTERS TO ÉMILE BERNARD A PROMISED GIFT OF THE THAW COLLECTION TO THE MORGAN LIBRARY

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Thursday, July 14, 2005

The Morgan Library has received from the collection of Eugene and Clare Thaw a promised gift of twenty letters written by the great postimpressionist painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).

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Collections Spotlight

August 18, 2021 through January 9, 2022

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

Masterworks from the Morgan

April 29 through July 2, 2006

Masterworks from the Morgan presented more than three hundred masterworks drawn from all six of the Morgan's collection areas, including new acquisitions and works that have never been seen or have not been exhibited for many years.