The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, founded by Pierpont …
WEBContact information. 225 Madison Avenue. New York, NY 10016. (212) 685-0008. Terms and conditions. Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station, the Morgan is a major exhibition venue for fine art, literature, and music, one of New York's great historic sites, and a wonderful place to dine, shop, and attend a concert or film.
Explore the Collection - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBExplore the Collection. See highlights of J. Pierpont Morgan's immense holdings of Egyptian art, Renaissance paintings, Chinese porcelains, illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints. Watch Morgan staff disucssing a selection of items from the Morgan's collection in this video series.
Welcome to the Morgan - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBThe Morgan Library & Museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10:30 am to 5 pm, and Friday from 10:30 am to 7 pm. The Morgan closes at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve and 5 pm on New Year's Eve. Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. Admission.
Belle da Costa Greene, the Morgan’s First Librarian and Director
WEBBelle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was one of the most prominent librarians in American history. She ran the Morgan Library for forty-three years—nineteen as the private librarian of J. Pierpont Morgan and later his son, Jack, and twenty-four as the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (now the Morgan Library & Museum).
The Little Prince: Manuscript and Drawings
WEBThe manuscript. The Morgan manuscript of The Little Prince is an extraordinary physical record of the author’s creative labor. Saint-Exupéry often wrote late into the night, a cigarette in his mouth and a cup of coffee or tea on hand. He thrived on the responses of those he trusted, thinking nothing of calling a friend at two in the morning ...
About the Morgan | The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBA museum and independent research library located in the heart of New York City, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old ...
New Light on Belle da Costa Greene - The Morgan Library
WEBMar 15, 2021 · Submitted by Daria Rose Foner on Mon, 03/15/2021 - 2:00pm. I recently came across a pair of letters that shed new light on the youth and education of the Morgan’s inaugural Director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). On July 1, 1896, the philanthropist and social welfare advocate Grace Hoadley Dodge (1856–1914) wrote to Emma Charlotte ...
The Crusader Bible | The Morgan Library & Museum Online …
WEBThis digital facsimile was created in conjunction with the exhibition The Crusader Bible: A Gothic Masterpiece, on view October 17, 2014, through January 4, 2015, and organized by William M. Voelkle, Curator and Department Head. View images with descriptions from the Morgan's Picture Bible illustrated in thirteenth-century France.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - The Morgan Library & Museum
WEBWith its memorable tale of ageless beauty and a concealed portrait, The Picture of Dorian Gray stands as one of Oscar Wilde’s most enduring and widely read literary works. Inspired at once by gothic horror fiction, French decadent literature, and contemporary aesthetic theory, the novel incited a storm of controversy in the late nineteenth century for its moral ambivalence and veiled ...
The Morgan House | History of the Morgan - The Morgan Library …
WEBThe Morgan House. In 1988 the Morgan acquired the Morgan House. Situated on the corner of 37th Street and Madison Avenue, to the north of the Annex, it is the sole survivor of the complex of three residences originally built in 1852/53 for the Phelps, Stokes, and Dodge families, of Phelps-Dodge copper fame. In 1881, Pierpont Morgan purchased ...