Past Exhibitions

October 25, 2019 through February 2, 2020

Illusions of the Photographer combines a full career retrospective—the first on Michals to be organized by a New York City museum—with an artist’s-choice show, as Michals plumbs the Morgan’s vaults for treasures both revered and long-forgotten.

October 4, 2019 through February 2, 2020

Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman continues a series of exhibitions focused on highlights from the Morgan’s collection.

October 8, 2019 through January 19, 2020

The career of English caricaturist James Gillray (1756–1815) spanned from the late eighteenth century to the first decade of the nineteenth century.

July 2, 2019, through January 19, 2020

This New Yorker bouquet is drawn from the extraordinary collection of over 1300 drawings for the magazine assembled by Melvin R. Seiden.

October 4, 2019 through January 12, 2020

This exhibition will recognize the sheer scale of Sargent’s achievement as a portrait draftsman.

September 6, 2019 through January 5, 2020

This exhibition isbased on The Enterprise of Opera - Verdi, Boito, Ricordi created by Bertelsmann/Ricordi and curated by Gabriele Dotto.

June 14 through October 6, 2019

The exhibition will include nearly 150 objects drawn primarily from the artist’s bequest to the Morgan of over 900 drawings.

May 24 through September 22, 2019

The satirical scenes of the celebrated English artist William Hogarth (1697–1764) are iconic representations of eighteenth-century urban life at a time of great socio-economic disparity.

June 7 through September 15, 2019

The exhibition explores Whitman’s process of self-invention, from his early years as a journalist, through the early 1850s when Whitman began to write more privately and poetically, to his final years.

December 11, 2018 through August 25, 2019

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.