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Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings

Isabelle Dervaux discusses one of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz. He gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting.

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Study for the Reliquary in San Giovanni in Laterano; Verso: Fragment of a ground plan for San Giovanni in Laterano

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

1720-1778

ca. 1763-1764

1966.11:110

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Thursday, September 5, 2024

The Morgan Library & Museum announces its 2024–2025 concert season of Music at the Morgan that celebrates the intersection of art, literature, and music with engaging concerts inspired by its collections and exhibitions.

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Thursday, June 18, 2020

The Morgan Library & Museum proudly announces a solo exhibition of work by the Los Angeles–based artist Betye Saar (b. 1926). Best known for incisive collages and assemblages that confront and reclaim racist images, Saar emerged in the 1960s as part of a wave of artists, many of them African American, who embraced the medium of assemblage.

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THE FUTURE OF BOOK DESIGN IS HERE: THE 2018 MORGAN BOOK PROJECT AWARDS SHOWCASES ILLUSTRATED BOOKS BY EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG PEOPLE

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The Morgan Welcomes New York City School Kids Whose Illustrated Manuscripts are the Subject of an Exciting Month-long Exhibition

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No Soft Nonsense: Anne Brontë at 200

February 25, 2020 through February 14, 2021

This small installation, on view in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library and drawn entirely from the Morgan’s own holdings, marks the two-hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth and celebrates her bold, enduring literary voice.

Patriziato Veneto : collection of genealogical "biers" and coats of arms of the Venetian nobility, [1728-1799].

[1728-1799].

MA 773

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

THE MORGAN ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF ROGER S. WIECK TO HEAD ITS RENOWNED DEPARTMENT OF MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

The Morgan Library & Museum today announced the appointment of Roger S. Wieck to head one of the institution’s core curatorial areas, its internationally recognized Department of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS EXCEPTIONAL GROUP OF DRAWINGS BY THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN NEW EXHIBITION

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Monday, April 9, 2018

Renowned for his portraiture and depictions of rural landscapes, the eighteenth-century British artist Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) is best known as a painter.

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Illuminating the Medieval Hunt

This digital facsimile features the celebrated fifteenth-century manuscript Le Livre de la chasse and other images depicting the noble hunt.

Digital Facsimile