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Morgan Museum

Morgan Museum

Once library of financier Pierpont Morgan—now a museum, research library, music venue, architectural landmark, and historic site.
Location
New York, United States
Founded in
1924

Permanent events

Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Pierpont Morgan's 1906 Library
Permanent event

Past events

Ruth Departing the Tent of Boaz. The Joanna S. Rose Illuminated Book of Ruth, in Hebrew and English, United States, New York, and Israel, Jerusalem, 2015–17, Commissioned by Joanna S. Rose, written by Izzy Pludwinski, designed and illuminated by Barbara Wolff, MS M.1210, fols. 20r–21r, Gift of Joanna S. Rose, 2018. Photography by Rudi Wolff. Artwork © Barbara Wolff.
The Book of Ruth
14 Feb — 14 Jun 2020
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915), Sainte Madeleine, wood engraving, and Armand Séguin (1869–1903), Femme couchée, zincograph, in L’Ymagier, no. 2 (January 1895). The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017. PML 197080.
Alfred Jarry
24 Jan — 10 May 2020
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–1826) He Is Free, 1798 or 1799 Pen and black ink, brown and red wash. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Departement des Estampes et de la photographie.
Jean-Jacques Lequeu
31 Jan — 10 May 2020
Drawing the Curtain. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Drawing the Curtain
14 Jun — 6 Oct 2019
Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Hogarth: Cruelty and Humor
24 May — 22 Sep 2019
Walt Whitman. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Walt Whitman
7 Jun — 15 Sep 2019
The Extended Moment. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
The Extended Moment
15 Feb — 26 May 2019
Invention and Design. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Invention and Design
15 Feb — 19 May 2019
By Any Means. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
By Any Means
18 Jan — 12 May 2019
Tolkien. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Tolkien
25 Jan — 12 May 2019
Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), The Nightmare, 1781, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Bert Smokler and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman /Bridgeman Images.
It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200
12 Oct 2018 — 27 Jan 2019
Tintoretto (1518/19–1594), Holy Family with the Young St. John, ca. 1549–50, oil on panel. Yale University Art Gallery, Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896, Fund and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund.
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice
12 Oct 2018 — 6 Jan 2019
Nine Jelly Apples, 1964, watercolor and graphite. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of George Hopper Fitch, B.A. 1932. Photography by Tony De Camillo. © Wayne Thiebaud/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud, Draftsman
18 May — 23 Sep 2018
The Taming the Tarasque, from Hours of Henry VIII, France, Tours, ca. 1500. The Morgan Library & M
Medieval Monsters
8 Jun — 23 Sep 2018
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). Pen and ink drawing with autograph instructions for a marble order for the facade of San Lorenzo, [Florence, 1518]. Collection of Pedro Corrêa do Lago.
The Magic of Handwriting
1 Jun — 16 Sep 2018
Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas
3 Nov 2017 — 14 Jan 2018
Magnificent Gems. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Magnificent Gems
8 Sep 2017 — 7 Jan 2018
Drawn to Greatness. Courtesy of Morgan Museum
Drawn to Greatness
29 Sep 2017 — 7 Jan 2018
Hemingway’s 1923 passport (detail), 1923, Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
Ernest Hemingway
25 Sep 2015 — 31 Jan 2016
Martin Puryear, Gate, 1966, Soft ground etching, with burnishing, Courtesy of the artist. © Martin Puryear. Photography © The Art, Institute of Chicago.
Multiple Dimensions
9 Oct 2015 — 10 Jan 2016
Barbara Wolff, I Will Sing Unto the Lord from You Renew the Face of the Earth: Psalm 104. The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.1190, fol. 10. Gift of Joanna S. Rose, 2014. Artwork © 2015 Barbara Wolff. Photography by Rudi Wolff.
Hebrew Illumination for Our Time
6 Feb — 3 May 2015 at Morgan Museum, New York
Cy Twombly, Untitled, 1970, Crayon, graphite pencil, ink, oil stick, colored pencil, tape, and cut and torn paper on paper. The Menil Collection, Houston; Gift of the artist. Photography by Paul Hester ©Cy Twombly Foundation
Cy Twombly. Treatise on the Veil
26 Sep 2014 — 25 Jan 2015 at The Morgan Museum, New York
Philip Guston (1913–1980), To Dorothy Miller, ca. 1972, Watercolor, Dorothy C. Miller papers, ca. 1912–92, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, © 2014 The Estate of Philip Guston
Handmade: Artists' Holiday Cards
21 Nov 2014 — 4 Jan 2015 at The Morgan Museum, New York
John Steinbeck (1902–1968), The Grapes of Wrath, New York: The Viking Press, 1939, Collection of the Estate of Carter Burden, The Morgan Library & Museum, Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014
Gatsby to Garp
20 May — 7 Sep 2014 at Morgan Museum, New York

Morgan Museum

40.74921
-73.98153
Madison Avenue, 225
New York 10016-3405 United States
+1 (212) 6850008
www.themorgan.org
Opening hours

Tuesday to Thursday
From 10.30am to 5pm
Friday from 10.30am to 9pm
Saturday from 10am to 6pm
Sunday from 11am to 6pm

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