Inside the Morgan: The Rotunda and East Room Medieval Bridget Riley Drawings: From the

Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio explores the importance of these works not only as a means of visual experimentation but as works of art in their own right

both in and out of the public eye

Curated by his daughter Nora and award-winning music historian Robert Santelli

and in a less pedantic manner

‘Topiary on a Gargantuan Scale: The Clipped “Yew-trees” at Four Ancient London Churchyards’ and ‘The Burrowing Duke at Harcourt House’

Inside the Morgan: The Rotunda and East Room Medieval Bridget Riley Drawings: From theBy 1900, the renowned banker and philanthropist J. Pierpont Morgan began to envision a repository to house his collection of rare books and manuscripts and serve as a retreat. He eventually commissioned the eminent architect Charles Follen McKim to construct an elegant marble villa next to his home on Thirty Sixth Street and Madison Avenue in New York City. Morgan was deeply engaged in the design of the structure and the decoration of its interiors,