Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak's Designs for Opera and Ballet Manuscripts

Drawing the Curtain: Maurice Sendak's Designs for Opera and Ballet ManuscriptsThis catalogue reveals the breadth of Maurice Sendak's visual work for opera and ballet and highlights his keen sense of humor, his love of art history, and his ability to tell striking stories through his art. Maurice Sendak is well known for his acclaimed children's books, but he was also an avid music lover and designed a number of opera and ballet productions, among them Mozart's Magic Flute, Jancek's Cunning Little Vixen, Prokofiev's Love for

The intricacies of the medieval calendar are examined in this sumptuously illustrated volume

From the Baroque Belshazzar’s Feast to the world-famous Night Watch we uncover a world of deep

But few know Matisse as an artist who designed and illustrated his own books

financed by the explosion of the Gilded Age art market and his secret partnership with the great art dealer Joseph Duveen

Prisse first embarked on his explorations in 1836

including the charming illustrated calendar images in which he specialized

the Morgan Library & Museum presents the nucleus of the Stockholm-based institution to a new global audience

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reopened to wide critical and popular acclaim