Visual Art

Betye Saar, Return to Dreamtime
Saar Soars at Auction
The bold assemblage of Betye Saar was the focus of a feature story in our winter 2021 issue, when the Morgan Library hosted a major
Carlo Galli Bibiena, A Colonnaded Stage Set
The Morgan Library Presents Drawings by the Bibiena Family
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum proudly presents Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibiena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection,
Martin Puryear, Phrygian, 2012
The Morgan Library Acquires Group of Exceptional Prints by Martin Puryear
New York – The Morgan Library & Museum proudly announces the acquisition of twenty exceptional prints by Martin Puryear.
Postcard depicting South Sands at Scarborough, England, in the early 1900s.
On View: British Postcards
A new exhibition at The Postal Museum in London looks at more than a century and a half of the British postcard.
25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy
Warhol’s Rare Illustrated Books Triumph at Bonhams NY
New York — One of Andy Warhol’s most important early artist books 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy printed in New York in 1954 by Seymour Berlin, sold for US$106,562 at
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Jockey, 1899
PAI’s March Auction Totals $1.95 Million in Sales
New York — Poster Auctions International’s (PAI) first sale of the year, on March 14th, finished at just under $2 million in sales.
Johann von Metzenhausen bookplate detail
New Book Shines Light on Early Color Prints
From works of art and missals to wallpaper, German printers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were colorfully creative marvels.
Child reading a book against dark background
When Literary Posters Sold Books
When well executed, posters are effective forms of propaganda: they convince viewers to do or buy something they might not otherwise.
Do It! Save Lives, Stay Home by Mike Nicholson.
Library of Congress Builds New Collections Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic
Washington, D.C.
Grand Prix d’Enduranve de 24 Heurs / Coup Rudge – Whitworth
6 Auction Records for Vintage Posters at Swann
New York — Swann Galleries’ winter offering of Vintage Posters saw the highest recent sell-through rate of the house’s large biannual sale in the category, “This is particularly gratifying under th