Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden.Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet’s Work In Community.Bound for Versailles: The Jayne Wrightsman Bookbindings Collection.
Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs. One Hundred Years of James Joyce's Ulysses. Dawn till Dusk: Studies of Light in Marine Sketches. Collections Spotlight, Fall 2022 / Winter 2023. Belle da Costa Greene and the Women of the Morgan. Ashley Bryan & Langston Hughes: Sail Away. She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings. Uncommon Denominator: Nina Katchadourian at the Morgan. Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo in the Morgan Library & Museum. Claude Gillot: Satire in the Age of Reason. Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. In and around Piranesi's Rome: Eighteenth-Century Views of Italy. Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy. Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. Seeds of Knowledge: Early Modern Illustrated Herbals. Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality. A Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Karen B. Nora Thompson Dean: Lenape Teacher and Herbalist. Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything. Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings-Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey. Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio. It was written by Kathleen Stuart, Assistant Curator, Drawings and Prints, the Morgan Library & Museum. Tales and Travels is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog documenting the works acquired on the fund since 1996. They reflect a devotion to literary and historical subjects as well as a keen interest in landscape both familiar and foreign. A particularly cohesive group, many of these drawings are highly finished, colorful, independent works of art. Turner and Samuel Palmer are represented. French masters Antoine Watteau and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and British draftsmen J. The selection is unified by a taste largely for drawings of the eighteenth century and encompasses both Rococo and Neoclassical traditions. 
On view are more than eighty sheets by French, British, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, and German draftsmen from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Tales and Travels is an exhibition of master drawings acquired for the Morgan over three decades with funds provided by the family of Sunny Crawford von Bülow.
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