Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your story in the March 11 Crimson describes Charles Morgan as taking a "quick pot shot at the fact that the Law School offers no course in ethics." However, for many years, the Law School has offered first one and then two courses in legal ethics (under the title of The Legal Profession) in addition to offering several other courses in which such matters are given substantial attention. Andrew L. Kaufman Professor...
...Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan...
...Renaissance manuscripts, rare drawings, incunabula (literally, things from the cradle, or books printed before 1501), bookbindings, historical documents and letters-these poured into his vaults, sucked from Europe as by a vacuum cleaner by the limitless power of his funds. After 1906 the collection was housed in the Morgan Library, a Manhattan palazzo designed by McKim, Mead & White that is itself a masterpiece of American Renaissance Revival architecture. After Morgan died in 1913, the buying went on under the direction of Belle da Costa Greene, a woman from Virginia of brisk wit and considerable presence, who expanded and refined...
there is no collection in America, and few in Europe, which can match that of the Morgan Library in its designated fields. The present show is, of course, no more than the tip of the Morgan iceberg, roughly 50 examples each from the four categories in which the library excels: autographs, early printed books and particularly illuminated manuscripts and old master drawings...
...with manuscripts, so with drawings. The Morgan's collection was recently fortified by a bequest from one of the greatest collectors of Italian drawings, Janos Scholz. What the library now offers is of almost unparalleled rarity, beginning with a black chalk study of devils-spiky, nervous and of an almost hallucinatory vigor-by the 15th century Artist Luca Signorelli, proceeding through works by Pontormo, Filippino Lippi, Dürer, Fragonard, Bruegel and Blake...