Date/Time
Date - April 21, 2018
2:00 pm until 4:00 pm
Location
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY, 10016
Join me for a visit to the Morgan Library & Museum to see “Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens” as well as their other current exhibitions, including “Joseph Cornell: The Saint-Exupéry Dossier” and “Peter Hujar: Speed of Life”.
Before our visit, members are invited to join me for brunch in the Morgan Dining Room or the Morgan Café.
Kindly RSVP by Thursday, April 20.
ADMISSION:
$20 Adult
$13 Senior (65 and older)
Tickets can be purchased in advance here or at the desk upon arrival.
From the website: themorgan.org
POWER AND GRACE: DRAWINGS BY RUBENS, VAN DYCK AND JORDAENS
January 19 – April 29, 2018
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Seated Male Youth, ca. 1613, black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on light gray paper, purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1909, e Morgan Library & Museum, I, 232. Photography by Steven H. Crossot, 2014.
Drawings played a crucial role in the artistic practice of the three giants of the Flemish Baroque, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), and Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678). This exhibition features the greatest works on paper by the artists in the Morgan’s collection, as well as a few key loans from local collections. The show highlights the distinctive graphic styles of each artist and their influence on one another. The Morgan is particularly well-suited to tell this fascinating story as its holdings of Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens are unparalleled in the United States.
JOSEPH CORNELL: THE SAINT-EXUPÉRY DOSSIER
March 20 – June 24, 2018
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944). Drawing of the little prince on the edge of a cliff. New York, 1942 or 1943. Pen and brown ink on onionskin paper. From Joseph Cornell’s Saint- Exupéry dossier.
Credit: The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2014. © Estate of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Photography by Janny Chiu, 2017
To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic story The Little Prince, the Morgan presents five newly discovered drawings by the author as well as intimate memorabilia from his time in New York during the 1940s. The items belonged to the American artist Joseph Cornell (1903–1972), who met Saint-Exupéry at the very moment the French author-aviator was drafting what would become one of the world’s favorite books. Cornell kept a dossier of papers and fragments that served as echoes of their encounters—everything from a marked-up cocktail napkin to an unpublished sketch of the little prince perched at the edge of a rose-covered cliff. Cornell’s Saint-Exupéry dossier was acquired by the Morgan in 2014 and is now shown in its entirety, for the first time, in the Morgan’s lower level lobby gallery.
The Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Avenue, New York, NY