The Morgan Library & Museum houses J.P. Morgan’s collection of historic manuscripts, early books, and old master drawings and prints. It’s his former residence.
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April 14, 2022
First Black Pulitzer Prize-Winner
Gwendolyn Brooks : A Poet’s Work in Community, examines the first Black Pulitzer Prize winner’s work as a model for building community in America today, at the Morgan Library in Murray Hill, Jan 28 – Jun 5, 2022. themorgan.org 🇺🇸
The Little Prince
The Little Prince : Taking Flight tells the story of how the famous book which was written in New York City in 1942-43, and whose only manuscript is in the collection at the Morgan Library in Murray Hill, Oct 14, 2022 – Jan 15, 2023. themorgan.org 🇫🇷
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Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016
(between 36th & 37th St)
Murray Hill, Manhattan
Subways
(6) to 33rd St
(4)(5)(6)(7) to Grand Central
(B)(D)(F)(Q) to 42nd St
PATH to 33rd St
J.P. Morgan was America’s Top Banker
Morgan (1837-1913) was the most powerful Wall Street banker during the Gilded Age (1870-1900). He controlled U.S. Steel, General Electric, International Harvester, AT&T, Aetna Life Insurance and many railroads.
The banker famously resolved the 1907 Financial Crisis (like our 2008) by locking his fellow bankers in his Library until everyone agreed to his solution. They ended up founding America’s Federal Reserve Bank.
The House of Morgan across the street from the New York Stock Exchange downtown is low rise. Everyone else built tall because Wall Street land is so valuable, but J.P. Morgan didn’t need to. He was so rich.
Morgan also helped define New York City’s relationship between finance and culture. He was active during the period when American power was growing, and European power was declining. At the time, newly rich Americans were buying up European culture.
Morgan’s bank is now JPMorgan Chase Bank.
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Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library
MURRAY HILL | Tue-Sun, Feb 15 – May 19, 2019 | Italian Renaissance art exhibition | The development of Renaissance drawing practices in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
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