Inside the Morgan: Pierpont Morgan's Study Manuscripts

Inside the Morgan: Pierpont Morgan's Study ManuscriptsBy 1900 the renowned banker and philanthropist John Pierpont Morgan began to envision building a repository to house his collections and serve as a private retreat. He commissioned the illustrious architect Charles McKim of McKim, Mead, and White to con struct an elegant marble villa next to his home on 36th Street between Madison and Park Avenues in New York City. Morgan was deeply engaged in the design of the building and the decoration of its

Stunning reproductions of the works

the British-born gallerist Sean Kelly and his wife

naive family enters the Evil Garden (free admission

startling apparitions in a shadowy street

The rich illuminations are idiosyncratic in their content

Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L

Children’s book author Alexandra S

in which the artist freely mixed artworks and objects from the Morgan Library & Museum’s famed collections

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The book illustrates—literally and figuratively—the story of a productive and constantly experimental career

and the key role played by the saints' days

Morgan’s personal librarian