Past Exhibitions

Philip Guston: Works on Paper

May 2 through August 31, 2008

The Morgan Library & Museum presents the first retrospective of drawings by Philip Guston (1913–1980) in twenty years.

Illuminating the Medieval Hunt

April 18 through August 10, 2008

Illuminating the Medieval Hunt features nearly fifty miniatures from the Morgan's celebrated hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus (1331–1391), Le Livre de la chasse (Paris, ca. 1407).

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Image of Hunting Party Pursuing Wild Boar

Draftsmen of the Medici Court: Drawings from the Morgan

February 29 through May 11, 2008

The Morgan Library & Museum presents from its rich permanent collection a select group of related works by artists at the court of Duke Cosimo I dei Medici (1519–1574).

Image of Head and Shoulders of a Bearded Man

Michelangelo, Vasari, and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi

January 25 though April 20, 2008

The show focuses on artists who worked on the frescoes, paintings, tapestries, and other decorative work that embellished the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, best known as the home of the Medici dukes.

Image of Bust of a Woman, Head of an Old Man and Bust of a Child

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.