• About
  • Contact Me

inlovewithjournals

~ musings on the hand-written life

inlovewithjournals

Tag Archives: morgan library and museum

The Lord of Language

29 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

morgan library and museum, oscar wilde

Here is another jewel in the collection of The Morgan Library & Museum in New York: a red-leather bound volume of handwritten pages, by Oscar Wilde himself. The book includes letters and manuscripts. It is a wonderful addition to the already impressive Wilde collection at the Morgan, alongside the earliest manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray and the only surviving letter from Wilde to his wife, Constance.

Speaking of Constance, isn’t it fascinating to think that she may have been the author of “The Selfish Giant”? With Wilde acting as editor? So very interesting.

wilde book

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/wilde/default.asp

 

Written In Stone

25 Monday Nov 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

morgan library and museum, writing

From April 13 through to September 5, 2010, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York hosted Written in Stone, an exhibition dedicated to the invention of the written word. Cuneiform, from the Latin cuneus, meaning wedge, is the earliest system of writing and was used for over 3,000 years.

I love the stone bowl featured in the exhibition. I like the fact that it was inscribed to Megirimta, daughter of King Uruk (possibly) and that all the writing is on the outside, leaving the inside clean. Such a beautiful colour. You can imagine it’s maker passing it lovely to the girl, who would read the inscription and reward the maker with a brilliant smile. Or that’s just me being romantic!

stone

From http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/WrittenInStone/default.asp

William Blake and Jeremy Irons

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

morgan library and museum, william blake, writers

From September 11, 2009, through to January 3, 2010 The Morgan Library and Museum in New York held an exhibition dedicated to William Blake called “William Blake’s World: A New Heaven is Begun.” The exhibition showcased Blake’s drawings, books of poetry and letters. If you want to take a walk through the online exhibit click here. 

But I think the best thing about this particular online exhibition are the mp3 recordings available on the Introduction page, featuring Jeremy Irons reading “Auguries of Innocence” and “The Tyger”. It’s been said Mr. Irons could make a phone book interesting, and this recording does not disappoint. Enjoy!

Image of Urizen

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/blake/default.asp

Painted with Words

03 Saturday Aug 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

letters, morgan library and museum, painters, vincent van gogh

What a treat to be able to flip through Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his young colleague Emile Bernard between 1887 and 1889. There are 81 of them so it will take a while. I love the table sketch (breakfast maybe?) of Letter 6, page 8.

Painted with Words was staged at the Morgan Library from September 28, 2007 through to January 6, 2008.

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=10

You dance inside my chest

06 Saturday Jul 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

morgan library and museum, poetry, rumi, writers

Who can remain unmoved when faced with a thought from Rumi?

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

From October 21, 2011 to January 29, 2012 the Morgan Library & Museum hosted the exhibition Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting from the Morgan, highlighting some of the extraordinary illustrated manuscripts and paintings in the Islamic tradition. One of the most beautiful is the illustrated life of Rumi (1207 – 1273).

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/islamic/manuscriptEnlarge.asp?page=42

This panel shows Shams of Tabriz, Rumi’s spiritual instructor, in brown, looking at the reflection of the sun in a small pool, while Rumi points to the sun itself. The entwined cypress and fruit tree to the right is meant to convey the love the two had for each other.

If you haven’t read Rumi you can read some of his quotes here and Amazon offers many collections.

Charles Dickens at 200

22 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

charles dickens, letters, morgan library and museum, writers

The collections of the Morgan Library & Museum contain a manuscript of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, written in a fever of creativity in six weeks in the fall of 1843. This manuscript and assorted letters were featured in the museum’s Charles Dickens at 200 exhibition, which ran from September 23, 2011 to February 12, 2012. Through the online exhibition, you can examine the manuscript page by page, which was apparently written in a single draft.

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=48

The letters are fascinating reading, and they provide insight into his creative habit. The following quote is from a letter to Sophie Verena, a young German novelist, who dedicated her first book to Dickens:

In reply to your second question whether I dictate, I answer with a smile that I can as soon imagine a painter dictating his pictures. No. I write every word of my books with my own hand, and do not write them very quickly either. I write with great care and pains (being passionately fond of my art, and thinking it worth any trouble), and persevere, and work hard.

And further advice in support of a vigorous exercise regimen:

You must remember that in all your literary aspiration, and whether thinking or writing, it is indispensably necessary to relieve that wear and tear of the mind by some other exertion that may be wholesomely set against it.

It is comforting to know that this most beloved and prolific of authors had his troubles with writer’s block just like the rest of us. In 1862 he told Wilkie Collins:

Sometimes, in a desperate state, I seize a pen, and resolve to precipitate myself upon a story. Then I get up again with a forehead as gnarled as the oak tree outside the window, and find all the lines in my face that ought to be on the blank paper.

Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters

08 Saturday Jun 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

beatrix potter, letters, morgan library and museum, writers

The Morgan Library & Museum hosted an exhibition called Beatrix Potter: The Picture Letters from November 2, 2012 to January 27, 2013. The aim was to show how Potter used her personal letters to develop the stories and artwork behind The Tale of Peter Rabbit and her other cast of animal characters.

And the best part: you can see the exhibition online.

Lists on Display

25 Saturday May 2013

Posted by inlovewithjournals in websites

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

archives of american art, handwriting, lists, morgan library and museum

I absolutely adore this image of Adolf Konrad’s packing list from December 16, 1963. He was heading to Rome and Egypt. I think I can count five journals, two or three fountain pens, four bottles of ink (!), three pencils, one ruler, and one eraser. I love how half the page takes up his writing/painting/photographic supplies for his trip.

Image from http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=53

This image is one of many from the 2011 exhibition called Lists: To Dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists’ Enumerations From the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. The Morgan Library & Museum website provides only this one image; you can read more about the exhibition and view more of the items on the Archives of American Art webpage. If you click through you can look at other sketches of the people and places he saw on his trip. There’s even a book you can buy.

Great poem by Charles Green Shaw.

A few of those things we never do

Image from http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/lists

And finally the wonderful love letter from Eero Saarinen to Aline Bernstein in 1954, around the time of their marriage. It is hinted at in the Morgan article.

Eero Saarinen letter to Aline B. (Aline Bernstein) Saarinen

Image from http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/lists

Updated: I just realized this is a travelling exhibition and it is currently showing at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 224 Benefit Street, Providence, Rhode Island, from March 15 to June 16, 2013. Wish I lived closer!

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 772 other subscribers

Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com

Recent Posts

  • #8 of 53: Anniversaries, Weddings and the Birmingham Pen Company
  • #7 of 53: Change, Lamy Pens and Mothers
  • #6 of 53: Here We Jinhao All Over Again
  • #5 of 53 File Index Sneak Peek and A Carousel of Ink
  • #4 of 53: Molly and Rex, Zibaldone and Brinded Cats
February 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728  
« Jun    

tags

akkerman amazon annie dillard arc notebooks bookblock.com books brainpickings.org cadence christmas de atramentis diary ebay filofax finsbury fountain pen fountain pen day fountain pen geeks franklin christoph from the pen cup giveaway goldspot goulet pens guardian handwriting incowrimo incowrimo 2015 ink journal j. herbin jetpens jinhao 159 journal journaling lamy lamy al-star letters letter writers alliance leuchtturm manuscript mark twain moleskine montblanc monteverde monteverde prima morgan library and museum nanami paper nanowrimo new york times notebooks paperblanks parker blue quink parker urban pens pentel slicci multipen peter pauper press pilot coleto multipen planners publishers weekly reid's stationers rhodia sbre brown scottsdale pen and knife seven seas writer shakespeare staples stationery stephen king twsbi eco visconti waterman william shakespeare wonderpens wonder pens world mail panel writers writing

categories

642 things to write about project articles bloghopping book reviews books that sound interesting crafts events funny giveaways ideas for themed journals ink review journal writing journal writing wednesday letter writing life list journal project messages monday miscellany my ink collection my journal collection my pen collection notebook reviews pen reviews planners quotes stationery store visits uncategorized video websites

Blogroll

  • a penchant for paper
  • all things stationery
  • daily writing tips
  • daisy yellow
  • dave rea
  • duly noted
  • east…west…everywhere
  • economy pens
  • fahrneys pens
  • fountain pen economics
  • fountain pen revolution
  • fp quest
  • franklin-christoph
  • from the pen cup
  • girl of all work office accessories
  • good writers
  • gorgeous ink
  • goulet pens
  • gourmet pens
  • ihanna's blog
  • indxd
  • inkdependence
  • inky cauldron
  • jetpens
  • journal gypsies
  • journal porn
  • journal wild
  • kaizen journaling
  • kicking ass and taking notes
  • la vie graphite
  • lady dandelion
  • laywines
  • leigh reyes my life as a verb
  • letter writers alliance
  • life in a typewriter shop
  • lost coast post
  • lovenotebooks
  • lowercase reading room
  • madison page
  • matador network
  • mochi things
  • moleskinerie
  • morgan le fae's trinkets
  • mrs brimbles
  • my life all in one place
  • my pen needs ink
  • my supply room
  • note booker, esq.
  • notebook stories
  • oberon journals
  • office supply geek
  • paper papier
  • paperlovestory
  • pen collection geekery
  • pen paper ink letter
  • pencils.com
  • pens and leather
  • pens, paper, inks…whatever!
  • philofaxy
  • places for writers
  • planet millie
  • plannerisms
  • quinn creative
  • quovadis blog
  • raven moon
  • ravens march
  • ritewhileucan
  • rollabind
  • ryman blog
  • sarah hanna
  • sbre brown
  • school supply dance
  • scription
  • seaweed kisses
  • sharing our notebooks
  • stationery traffic
  • taking note now
  • terribly write
  • the desk of adam
  • the gentleman stationer
  • the journal shop
  • the journal writer's handbook
  • the life of the perpetual student
  • the pen addict
  • the purl bug
  • the well appointed desk
  • these beautiful pens
  • three staples
  • tigerpens blog
  • united inkdom
  • winnie's inky fingers
  • wonderpens blog
  • wonderpens online store
  • write 4 life

Archives

on my bedside table today

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • inlovewithjournals
    • Join 552 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • inlovewithjournals
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...