Exhibits
'Who is not a Foole, who is free from Melancholy?’, asked Robert Burton, 400 years ago, and answered his own question: ‘all the world is mad, is melancholy, dotes’.
This exhibition debuts exciting recent acquisitions to the museum’s collection by contemporary women printmakers.
Odilon Redon was known as “the prince of mysterious dreams” for his enigmatic and imaginative paintings, drawings, and prints that mined fantasy, literature, and the subconscious.
In 1892, as Willard Fiske, Cornell University’s first librarian, was restoring a villa near Florence, he impulsively purchased a 1536 edition of the Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and
This exhibition celebrates the gifts of art and story that Eric Carle shared with the world.
The author of more than three thousand folk songs, Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) is one of the most influential songwriters and recording artists in American history.
This exhibition celebrates the life and work of American poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000).
Imperial Splendor offers a sweeping overview of manuscript production in the Holy Roman Empire, one of the most impressive chapters in the history of medieval art.
Anthropomorphism in Children’s Literature; Celebrating the Peter J. Solomon Collection