“Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection” Exhibition
The Morgan Library & Museum
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Between 1973 and 1996 Carter Burden, a cultural benefactor and former New York City councilman, assembled the greatest collection of modern American literature in private hands. This exhibition brings together nearly one hundred outstanding works from the collection, including first editions, manuscripts, letters, and revised galley proofs. Authors featured in this unparalleled exhibition are some of the twentieth century’s most celebrated—William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, John Irving, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, J. D. Salinger, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Tennessee Williams, and Richard Wright, among others.
Related Programs:
Gallery Talk
Gatsby to Garp: Modern Masterpieces from the Carter Burden Collection
Friday, May 30, 6:30 p.m.
Reading
Poetry on View: Readings from the Carter Burden Collection
Thursday, June 26, 6:30 p.m.
[Image: Works from the Carter Burden Collection of American Literature and the Estate of Carter Burden, Photography by Graham S. Haber, 2014.]
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Schedule
from May 20, 2014 to September 07, 2014
Gallery Talk: May 30, 18:30