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The MORGANLibrary

Report to Donors 2004 Board of Trustees

List as of March 31, 2004

S. Parker Gilbert, President James R. Houghton, Vice President Robert M. Pennoyer, Secretary George L. K. Frelinghuysen, Treasurer

Rodney B. Berens Mrs. Livio Borghese T. Kimball Brooker Walter Burke Flobelle Burden Davis Geoffrey K. Elliott Mrs. H. J. Heinz II Lawrence Hughes Herbert L. Lucas Mrs. John D. Macomber Richard L. Menschel Charles F. Morgan John A. Morgan Diane A. Nixon Cynthia Hazen Polsky Mrs. Oscar de la Renta L. R. Ricciardi James Baker Sitrick Eugene V. Thaw Ladislaus von Hoffmann Jeffrey C. Walker Douglas A. Warner III Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

Trustees Emeriti Mrs. Vincent Astor Haliburton Fales, 2d John P. Morgan II

Ex Ofﬁcio Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Hamilton Robinson, Jr.

Front cover: Detail of a preliminary sketch by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop of the Morgan Library expansion project.

Opposite: Madison Avenue side of the Morgan Library model. The Morgan Library report to donors 2004 Letter from the Director

In The Grapes of Wrath, John Stein- beck used a literary device called an Report to Donors 2004 interchapter. These distinct seg- April 1, 2003–March 31, 2004 ments of prose seem, at first, to interrupt the novel’s narrative. In fact they expand and illuminate this literary masterpiece’s development Letter from the Director 2 and major themes. A masterpiece of another kind—the Morgan The Morgan Library at a Glance 4 Library—is itself now experiencing Highlights from 2003–2004 6 a kind of interchapter. The renovation and expansion project designed Library and Collections 8 by renowned architect Renzo Piano has brought an interruption Letter from the President 12 to the Morgan’s regular course but at the same time will extend and Statement of Financial Position 13 enhance the resources that make it a premier museum and research library. Fiscal year 2004 marked the beginning of the construction phase of Renzo Donors 14 Piano’s imaginative design. His beautiful plan preserves the three historic The Campaign 18 buildings—the McKim library, the Annex, and the Morgan house—and creates three new structures. Major features include a spacious central court, Staff 20 expanded galleries, a modern performance hall, and ample space for collections storage. In addition, his sensitive renovation of many existing areas solves difficulties of public circulation and expands critical space for essential programs and services. We believe that this plan will fulfill the potential of this library and museum in a contemporary world and at the same time sustain its time-honored ethos of intimacy, elegance, and serenity. To accomplish this ambitious building project and to add to the endowment, we launched the largest capital campaign in the history of the Mor- gan. Our current goal is to raise $127 million in public and private funds: $102 million for the building and renovation and $25 million restricted for endowment. With the Board of Trustees leading the way, we have already received an extraordinary expression of generosity that should herald our success by the reopening in spring of 2006. Even during this period of transformation, the Morgan continues in its integral role as both a museum and an independent research center. Scholars have access to portions of the collections in a temporary off-site reading

2 room. We also sent exhibitions derived from the collections to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the Princeton University Art Museum and loaned objects to exhibitions around the world. Highlights from the collections are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as well. This long-term loan includes superb examples of our medieval art, among them the twelfth-century Stavelot Triptych, along with paintings by Hans Memling, and selections from the Morgan’s remarkable collection of Mesopotamian cylinder seals. The Morgan has, with a little imagination and through the kindness of other institutions, been able to sustain such public programs as concerts, lectures, and gallery talks. We have held events at venues around the city, including the Institute of Fine Arts, the City University of New York, and Carnegie Hall. The annual George London Foundation Recital Series, held at CUNY’s Elebash Recital Hall, continues to inspire listeners with its pairings of renowned international singers and recent winners of the George London career grant. In addition, Mor- gan docents and curators led gallery tours through The Metropolitan Museum of Art to focus on some of the masterpieces from the Morgan’s collections now on view there. Our arts-in-education program has been entirely restructured to function as an off-site learning laboratory during the period of construction. Since its inception in 2003, Exploring with the Morgan has reached hundreds of students in grades three through seven in twenty schools throughout New York City. Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts from the Morgan’s collections serve as the basis for learning about trade, exploration, and exchanges between Eastern and Western cultures, as well as the function, production, and aesthetics of illuminated manuscripts. Through object- and document-based work in the classroom and ﬁeld trips to the American Museum of Natural History, the program exposes children to such topics as the Native Americans of the sixteenth century and the early trade routes of Asia. In one sense the Morgan is closed. But it is perhaps more accurate to say that library and museum functions have been scaled down and focused rather than suspended. As the pages that follow demonstrate, critical work of many kinds is simultaneously under way. This important interchapter in the evolving historical narrative of the Morgan Library is being written by a magniﬁcently supportive Board of Trustees, generous donors, and an able and hardworking staff. The institution is, and will be, ever greater for their collective vision and extraordinary commitment. They have my utmost gratitude and are acknowledged on the pages that follow.

Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Director March 2005

3 The Morgan Library at a Glance

April 1, 2003–March 31, 2004

Renzo Piano Building Project Annual Fund 2004 • On May 4, 2003, the Morgan closed to • Support for the Annual Fund 2004 totaled the public. nearly $133,000. • On June 2, 2003, the ﬁrst phase of construction, comprising demolition, excava- tion, and foundation work, began. Membership During Closure • In the spring of 2006 the Morgan is • The Association of Fellows retained 96 scheduled to reopen to the public with percent of its membership. expanded exhibition galleries, a new • $1,770,631 was given in membership dues. 280-seat auditorium, and other enhanced • 1,800 households were members of the public spaces. Morgan Library as of March 31, 2004.

Campaign Gifts to the Collections • $87 million was identiﬁed in gifts and • 50 gifts valued at over $1,000 were pledges as of March 31, 2004. received. • The goal is to raise $127 million in public and private funds: $102 million is to be for the building project and $25 million is to Acquisitions be restricted for endowment. • $1,799,195 was spent on acquisitions.

Traveling Exhibitions • 23,632 visitors attended Painted Prayers at Online Cataloging • 238,738 records, representing 90 percent the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. of the Morgan’s holdings, are in corsair, • 18,240 visitors attended The Book of Kings at the Princeton University Art Museum. the online collection catalog. • 9,248 records were added to corsair. • 16,854 corsair records were updated. • Records for medieval manuscripts Objects on Loan were linked to online descriptions and • 256 works from the collections were bibliographies. loaned to institutions worldwide, from Cremona to Stockholm to London.

Public Programs and Education • 1,053 visitors attended public programs at the Morgan in the ﬁve weeks before closure. • 1,024 visitors attended sixteen public programs at off-site locations, consisting of gallery talks, lectures, concerts, and a roundtable discussion. • 843 third- through seventh-grade students participated in the off-site arts-in-education program Exploring with the Morgan.

4 Conservation Web Site • Systematic examination, documentation, • There were 261,768 visits to the Morgan and rematting was completed on drawings site. from the Janos Scholz collection and • 264 exhibition images were added to the began on Rembrandt etchings. site. • Condition surveys began on objects in the • The exhibitions section was expanded to department of Literary and Historical include all traveling exhibitions with a Manuscripts. wide selection of images, many using a • Examination of the Oenslager collection, new zoom feature. Hillman bequest, and Thayer gifts, as well • The online exhibition of Two Masterpieces as the collection of French drawings, Illuminated by Jean Poyet with 83 images continued. was added. • Technical examination of 180 Italian • The online exhibition of Gainsborough to drawings was completed. Ruskin with 64 images was added. • Capability for visitors to purchase a membership online was added. Photography • Over 300 large-format color transparencies were provided for a facsimile of the Mor- Office of the Registrar gan’s Las Huelgas Beatus. • 181 objects from the collections were • Over 450 photographic images were pro- transported in 40 trips to the Morgan’s vided for the children’s book catalogue off-site Reading Room for study and con- Be Merry and Wise, to be copublished with servation. the British Library and the Bibliographical • 124 panels of the Amherst Egyptian papyri Society of America. collection were sent to the Ratti Textile Center at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for study, translation, and cataloging. Reader Services • 58 illuminated manuscripts were trans- • On July 1, 2003, the Reading Room ported to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort opened to readers at a new, off-site con- Worth, for the exhibition Painted Prayers. sultation space. • 4,860 rare and reference materials were consulted by visitors and staff. • Reading Room staff responded to 1,615 queries via telephone, letter, and e-mail.

Reference Collection • 1,363 records were added to corsair. • 2,451 corsair records were updated. • 64 records were contributed to or updated in the Library of Congress Name Author- ity File through the Artnaco project.

Exterior of the McKim library.

5 Highlights from 2003–2004

Left: Saul Slaying Nahash and the Ammonites and Samuel Anoints Saul and Sacrifices to the Lord (detail), Old Testament Minia- tures with Latin, Persian, and Judeo-Persian inscriptions, France, Paris, 1240s, purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1916, ms m.638, fol. 23v.

Right: Jeweled upper cover of the Lindau Gospels, ca. 880, Court School of Charles the Bald, on: Lindau Gospels, in Latin, Switzer- land, Abbey of St. Gall, late ninth century, purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901, ms m.1.

Exhibitions The Morgan Library–Renzo Piano Project Painted Prayers: Medieval and Renaissance Books of October 2, 2002–May 4, 2003 Hours from the Morgan Library The exhibition was made possible by a grant from the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth David L. Klein, Jr. Foundation. October 12, 2003–January 18, 2004

Picturing Natural History: Flora and Fauna in The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Drawings, Manuscripts, and Printed Books Library’s Medieval Picture Bible February 12–May 4, 2003 Princeton University Art Museum The exhibition was sponsored by The Fay Elliott March 6–June 6, 2004 Foundation. Generous assistance was provided by Organized by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, with The H. P. Kraus Fund, Con Edison, and the the cooperation of the Morgan Library, New York. This MetLife Foundation. exhibition was generously supported by the National Endow- ment for the Humanities: expanding our understanding of Morgan Medieval Masterworks on View at The the world. Any views, ﬁndings, conclusions, or recommen- Metropolitan Museum of Art dations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily reﬂect April 1, 2003–June 2005 those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Right: Jean Bourdichon, Nativity and Thistles (detail), Book of Hours, France, Tours, ca. 1515, Purchased by J. P. Morgan, Jr., 1927, ms m.732, fols. 31v–32r.

Left: Maria Sibylla Merian, Surinam Lizard, purchased through the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978, 2001.10.

6 Master class with Catherine Malfitano on Puccini operatic style.

Public Programs and Education Despite the closure of its campus, the Morgan Library presented a wide array of public programs, including gallery talks, lectures, concerts, and a roundtable discussion. In addition, the arts-in-education program, Explor- ing with the Morgan, was completely reworked to function as an off-site learning laboratory and reached hundreds of third- through seventh-grade New York City students.

The Morgan Library 2003–2004 public programs season was graciously underwritten by the R. K. Mellon Family Foundation.

Exploring with the Morgan received continuing support from Sue Erpf Van de Bovenkamp and the MetLife Foundation.

Above: A third grader illustrates her journal entry in a program that focuses on the Drake manuscript.

Right: A third grader experiments with medieval techniques and tools, such as pestles and mortars, to obtain pigments, from which she will make paint. She will then use the paint and 22-carat-gold leaf to create her own illumination.

7 Library and Collections

Drawings and Prints 8. Alexandre Falguière (1831–1900), Study of Two Satyrs 9. John Flaxman (1755–1826), Nestor Offering a Sacrifice to Minerva 10. Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806), Study of a Girl on a Donkey 11. Jean Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), Study of a Courtier 12. Jean-Jacques Henner (1829–1905), Head of a Woman 13. Edward Lear (1812-1888), Mt. Aetna (from Lamia) 14. Edward Lear, Wady Halfeh, Nile, Nubia 15. Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), Portrait of a Man, Bust-Length 16. Léon Lhermitte (1844–1925), Paysans Bouvant 17. Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), six drawings: Study of a Child with an Infant Warding Off a Goose; Study of a Mug; Study of Houses and Farm Buildings, Probably Gruchy; Dunes of Gruchy; A Gate with a Field Beyond; and The Plain of Chailly, with a Ruined Telegraph Tower 18. Charles Monginot (1825–1900), Head of a Man Wearing a Renaissance Hat 19. Victor Orsel (1795–1850), Head of a Model in Profile, as Christ 20. Marie Spartali Stillman (1844–1927), Ponte Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, The Three Trees, etching, with drypoint and burin, gift of J. P. Morgan, Jr., Nomentano 1924, B. 212, RvR 299. 21. Jehan Georges Vibert (1840–1902), A Cardinal in Profile 22. Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Ranging from preparatory studies and Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory (1814–1879), “Jouteur” sketches to finished works of art, the of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Trustee, 1974 to 23. William Ward (1829–1908), Saumur nearly ten thousand drawings and prints in 1986, Trustee Emerita, 1986 to 2004 François Watteau, called Watteau de Lille, le Gift of John M. Thayer in honor of Charles Eliot the collection span the fourteenth through fils (1758–1823), An Elegant Woman Seated in Pierce, Jr. the twentieth centuries. The holdings Profile Holding a Card Victor François Eloi Biennourry (1823–1893), include works by Blake, Cézanne, Degas, Study of the Soldier Holding the Crown of Thorns Dürer, Pollock, Pontormo, Rubens, and Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Elizabeth M. Riley GIFTS FOR ACQUISITIONS* Watteau as well as the country’s largest and John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876), An Interior Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978 finest collection of Rembrandt etchings. with Armor and Weaponry Fifth Floor Foundation

GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT* Gift of Patricia and Henry Tang DRAWINGS AND PRINTS VISITING Gift of Frederic de Goldschmidt in honor of his Augustus John (1878–1961), Standing Woman COMMITTEE and Seated Woman, Sewing godmother, Peggy Deutschmeister Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Askin Jacques Villon (1875–1963), Study of a Woman Jean A. Bonna Gift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Mrs. Gilbert E. Butler Bequest of Ernest Hillman, Jr. Friedrich Preller the Elder (1804–1878), Mrs. Catherine G. Curran 1. Attributed to George Chinnery (1774–1852), Sketchbook, 29 drawings on 31 pages Study of Three Figures: An Altercation Pierre Durand George L. K. Frelinghuysen 2. Italian school, eighteenth century, Isola di San Gift of John M. Thayer Herbert Kasper Giorgio Maggiore a Venezia 1. Jean Alaux, called Le Romain (1786–1864), Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Lepow 3. Italian school, eighteenth century, Piazza San Head of a Persian Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Marco, Venice 2. Antoine Berjon (1754–1843), Study of a Flower Clement C. Moore II 4. Graham Sutherland (1903–1980), Study for a Palm 3. Antoine Berjon, Study of Leaves (Paparer Diane A. Nixon Tree; verso: Architectural Subject with Palm Tree Somniferum) Hamilton Robinson, Jr. 4. Jacques Emile Edouard Brandon (1831–1897), Charles Ryskamp Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory Head of a Model, as Christ Melvin R. Seiden of Gertrude Dennis 5. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), Nude Eugene V. Thaw Johann Elias Ridinger (1698–1767), Owls Male Blowing a Horn John M. Thayer 6. Jacques Louis David (1748–1825), Study of Two Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Trumpeters Wheelock Whitney III 7. Michel-Martin Drolling (1786–1851), Head of a Andrea Woodner Young Boy Mrs. Charles Wrightsman 8 Medieval and Renaissance Printed Books and Bindings Manuscripts Diversity and quality have been the hall- Spanning some ten centuries of Western marks of this collection of close to one illumination, the collection includes close hundred thousand rare printed books and to thirteen hundred manuscripts as well as fine bindings, which includes particularly papyri. Notable are the ninth-century fine examples from all periods but espe- bejeweled Lindau Gospels, the tenth- cially from the fifteenth century. Among century Beatus, the Hours of Catherine of the highlights are three Gutenberg Bibles Cleves, and the celebrated Hours of Car- and classic early children’s books. The dinal Alessandro Farnese, the best-known Library houses the country’s most compre- Italian manuscript. hensive collection of bookbindings from the seventh century to the present. GIFTS FOR ACQUISITIONS* Professor Mervin R. Dilts GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT* Gift of Susan L. Burden, S. Carter Burden III, and The Phlegmatic Temperament (woodcut). Kalen- ACQUISITION OF NOTE** Flobelle Burden Davis der. Ulm: Johann Schäffler, 1498. pml 23169. Pope Clement VII Asperging the Congregation 1. Herman Wouk, The Winds of War (1971), Before Mass, a miniature by Vincenzo galley proofs Raimondi made in Rome about 1523 for the 2. Charles Wright, Yard Journal, Richmond: Sistine Chapel with gilt frame by Abate Luigi Laurel Press, n.d., no. 10 of 30 copies; Celotti (reproduced below) illustrated with etchings by David Freed

Gift of Werner H. Kramarsky Rona Pondick, I want, New York: I. C. Editions, 1996

Gift of Mary D. Lindsay Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, New York: Collins; Philadelphia: Harrison Hall, 1828–29

Gift of Cathleen T. McLoughlin in memory of John de Rohan France, Parlement (Toulouse), Arrest memorable du Parlement de Tolose, contenant une histoire prodigieuse, de nostre temps, avec cent belles et doctes annotations de Mo[n]sieur maistre Jean de Coras...Prononcée es Arrestz Generaux le xij. Septembre, M.D.LX, Paris: s.n., 1565

Gift of Justin G. Schiller Proceedings of the Reception and Dinner in Honor of George Peabody, Esq. of London, by the Citizens of the Old Town of Danvers, October 9, 1856, Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1856; contains two plates signed by the young Winslow Homer

GIFTS FOR ACQUISITIONS* Alouette Fund of the New York Community Trust Jonathan A. Hill Helen Zanetti Marx Susan Schinitsky

*Gifts valued at $1,000 or more **Partial list of acquisitions Pope Clement VII Asperging the Congregation Before Mass, miniature by Vincenzo Raimondi and gilt frame by Abate Luigi Celotti, ca. 1523, ms m.1134.

9 Music Manuscripts and Books The Library’s collection of autograph music manuscripts is unequaled in this country. Begun by Pierpont Morgan with the manuscripts of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata no. 10 in G Major, op. 96, and two of Mozart’s ear- liest surviving letters, the holdings now include original handwritten works by Bach, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, and Stravinsky along with the world’s most comprehensive collection of Gilbert and Sullivan scores, memorabilia, and ephemera.

GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT* Gift of Viola Winner from the estate of Dario and Dorle Soria Literary and Historical Manuscripts 2. William Cowper, autograph letter, signed, Three autograph letters of Gian Francesco dated 21 June 1784, to an unidentified The collection of well over ninety thou- Malipiero; document signed by Giuseppe recipient sand literary and historical manuscripts Verdi; and inscribed photographs of Umberto Giordano, Pietro Mascagni, Gian Carlo includes correspondence, diaries, and drafts Gift of John M. Thayer Menotti, Ottorino Respighi, Igor Stravinsky, 1. C. S. Lewis, correspondence (8 items), dated of works by major British, European, and Arturo Toscanini, and Riccardo Zandonai American authors, artists, scientists, and his- 1961–63, with Victor R. Thayer, concerning Thayer’s essay “The Philosophy of a Man” ACQUISITIONS OF NOTE** torical and political figures. Among high- 2. Lincoln Kirstein, autograph and typed letters lights are Charles Dickens’s A Christmas and notes (29), dated New York, 1976–89, to 1. Autograph musical quotation, signed, from Carol, Henry David Thoreau’s journals, and John Thayer Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection. Thomas Jefferson’s letters to his daughter Gift of Francis-Noël Thomas 2. Joseph Haydn, Gott erhalte Franz den Kaier, the Martha. Other significant holdings are Laurie Colwin, autograph letter, signed, first edition of the first Austrian national manuscripts and letters of Jane Austen, September 24, 1976, to Francis-Noël Thomas; anthem Charlotte Brontë, Albert Einstein, Abraham with a photograph of Colwin and Thomas, a Lincoln, John Steinbeck, and Voltaire. cartoon by Colwin depicting “Dr. Spazieren” and inscribed to Thomas, a personal reminiscence of Colwin by Thomas GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT* Gift of Susan L. Burden, S. Carter Burden III, and GIFTS FOR ACQUISITIONS* Above: John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, auto- Flobelle Burden Davis Jonathan A. Hill graph manuscript, 1851–53, purchased by 1. Henrik Ibsen, The Doll’s House, “a new acting Pierpont Morgan, 1907, ma 398–400. version by Thornton Wilder” (1951), typescript Below: Giacomo Puccini, La Bóheme, sketches 2. Jean-Paul Sartre, The Victors, translated by for Act IV (1895), The Dannie and Hettie Thornton Wilder (ca. 1948), carbon typescript Heineman Collection, Heineman ms 173B. and three mimeographed typescripts 3. Billy Wilder, three screenplays: The Emperor Waltz (1947); Ninotchka (1939); and The Major and the Minor (1942)

Gift of Robert S Pirie William Makepeace Thackeray, autograph letter, signed, dated Washington, 13 January 1856, to Mr. Thompson

Gift of Charles Ryskamp in memory of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Trustee, 1974 to 1986, Trustee Emerita, 1986 to 2004 1. William Cowper, autograph letter, signed, dated 13 May 1779, to “my dear cousin” [Mrs. Cowper]

10 Ancient Near Eastern Seals and Tablets Engraved seals are among the smallest objects ever produced by sculptors. Gen- erally only an inch in height, they were carved in great detail with simple tools on semiprecious stones. Through its extensive collection of seals and tablets, the Library can trace a continuous artistic sequence from the end of the ﬁfth millennium b.c. to the time of the Persian Empire in the ﬁfth century b.c.

The department is grateful to the Joseph Rosen Foundation for its continued underwriting support.

Archives ACQUISITIONS OF NOTE** Above: A Winged Hero Contesting with Album of 279 photographs from Pierpont a Lion for a Bull, cylinder seal and The Archives document the history of the impression, Neo-Babylonian period Morgan’s 1909 trip through Egypt and Greece, (ca. 1000–539 b.c.), carnelian, with Library, the Morgan family, and the Mor- prepared as a gift for his nephew Junius original copper settings preserved gan banking houses. Correspondence, Spencer Morgan at both ends, cylinder no. 747. diaries, documents, photographs, books, and selected artifacts provide a record of Below: Invoice from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, for a manuscript of the inﬂuence of several generations of *Gifts valued at $1,000 or more Sir Walter Scott’s novel St. Ronan’s Morgans in the worlds of art, commerce, **Partial list of acquisitions Well, sold to Pierpont Morgan, 1900. and philanthropy.

11 Letter from the President

Fiscal year 2004, which began April 1, 2003, and ended on March 31, 2004, presented unprecedented challenges for the Morgan Library. In May 2003, the campus was closed so that the major expansion and renovation project, designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano, could begin. Some 350,000 objects from the collections were relocated and the staff was moved to new ofﬁce spaces in midtown Manhattan, where it was able to continue to serve scholars.

I am pleased to report that $1,770,631 was given in membership dues in fiscal 2004. This figure is only 7.2 percent less than it was in fiscal 2002, in spite of the Morgan being closed to the public throughout the year. This great success is in large part due to the steadfast support of the Trustees, members of the Director’s Round- table, Pierpont Fellows, Patrons, and Fellows. In addition, support for the Annual Fund totaled nearly $133,000 and net proceeds from the annual gala benefit totaled $222,000.

The Morgan also received substantial support for its operating budget from individuals and foundations as well as from corporations and the state government. Major gifts were made by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Gilder Foundation, Inc., the Hazen Polsky Foundation, the Estate of Donald F. Hyde, the International Music and Art Foundation, Mrs. Hans P. Kraus, The Ambrose Monell Foundation, The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc., the Joseph Rosen Foundation, Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg, the Thaw Charitable Trust, and The Alice Tully Foundation, and continuing support was provided by the R. K. Mellon Family Foundation.

In the meantime, major progress was made on the Campaign for The Pierpont Morgan Library. By March 31, 2004, $87 million was identiﬁed in gifts and pledges. Of this total, $77 million was available for the building project and $10 million was restricted for endowment. The Board of Trustees led the way, giving over $47 million to the campaign. In addition, the Special Gifts Committee, assembled in early 2004 to work in tandem with the Capital Campaign Committee, exceeded their goal of $5 million at the end of 2004 and set a new goal of $6 million.

As of the date of this letter, I am very pleased to report that we have identiﬁed almost $100 million in gifts and pledges. Of that total, nearly $87 million is available for the building project and over $12 million is restricted for endowment. We have thus made great progress in the past year.

I am also happy to report that the building project is still essentially on budget and on schedule. We are hoping, if all continues to go as planned, to reopen in the spring of 2006.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all of you who are acknowledged in the following pages, who have contributed to the continuing ﬁnancial health of the Morgan Library. Your contributions to the operating budget and your gifts to the capital campaign are greatly appreciated by the Trustees.

S. Parker Gilbert President of the Board of Trustees March 2005

12 The Pierpont Morgan Library Statement of Financial Position March 31, 2004 with comparative totals for 2003

  Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 10,379,397 $ 9,752,308 Investments 71,330,185 51,076,130 Dividends and interest receivable 230,511 158,950 Grants and contributions receivable 34,648,988 38,338,553 Inventory 301,605 366,099 Broker receivable 883,933 2,442,242 Other assets 672,503 318,157 Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation 35,608,945 41,692,716 Construction in progress 22,564,702 8,513,998 Investments held in perpetuity 61,792,342 58,809,652 Restricted cash - proceeds from long-term debt 47,317,809 - Financing costs, net of amortization 1,160,972 - Collections and books - -

Total Assets $286,891,892 $211,468,805

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities Investments sold short $ 3,174,068 $ 2,152,777 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 4,643,934 3,141,989 Broker payable 790,836 7,110,322 Long-term debt 50,000,000 - Accrued postretirement beneﬁts other than pensions 2,996,029 2,935,650 Total Liabilities 61,604,867 15,340,738

Net Assets Unrestricted Investment in property and equipment 35,608,945 41,692,716 Board-designated 26,178,329 16,776,791 Total Unrestricted 61,787,274 58,469,507 Temporarily restricted 98,035,092 75,363,085 Permanently restricted 65,464,659 62,295,475 Total Net Assets 225,287,025 196,128,067

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $286,891,892 $211,468,805

You may request copies of the three most recent annual information returns by contacting the Morgan Library or the New York State Department of Law Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

13 Donors

We are deeply thankful to our donors, who support the Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Jill Newhouse Morgan Library’s dual mission as a museum and an Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP Zilkha Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Pennoyer independent research center. The following is a list of The Howard Phipps Foundation individual, foundation, corporate, and government agency $5,000 to $9,999 The Mrs. Cheever Porter donors who made gifts, grants, pledges, and pledge Mr. and Mrs. William R. Acquavella Foundation, Inc. Mrs. August H. Schilling payments during fiscal 2004 toward general operating Mr. and Mrs. Warren J. Adelson Altria Group, Inc. Jessie Schilling support, exhibition support, and other special projects. American Express Company Christopher Scholz The Theodore H. Barth Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gerard L. Smith The Howard Bayne Fund Sotheby’s $100,000 and above Barbara G. Fleischman Laura S. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. Tucker Taylor Felicitas and Kurt F. Viermetz Gilder Foundation, Inc. Evan Frankel Foundation William Bernhard and Catherine Cahill Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Warner III International Music and Art Mr. and Mrs. George L. K. W. Mark Brady Warner Foundation Foundation Frelinghuysen Mrs. Jackson Burke Mr. and Mrs. William B. Warren Mrs. Hans P. Kraus Goldman, Sachs & Co. The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Thomas J. Watson Foundation The Ambrose Monell Foundation Gurney Foundation, Inc. Foundation Wheelock Whitney III Thaw Charitable Trust The Marc Haas Foundation Charles C. Butt Marie and George Hecksher W. P. Carey & Co., Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Wilcox The Zukerman Family Charitable $50,000 to $99,999 Mrs. H. J. Heinz II Barbara and Finn M. W. Caspersen Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton Mrs. Christopher C. Y. Chen Trust E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Lawrence and Rose Hughes Christie’s Foundation to Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Johnson Vivien Ranschburg Clark $1,000 $4,999 Hazen Polsky Foundation Mrs. Hugh Jones Corning Incorporated George S. Abrams, Esq. Estate of Donald F. Hyde JPMorgan Chase & Co. Alexander C. Cortesi and Wendy Achelis Foundation The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Herbert Kasper Mackenzie Acordia Foundation, Inc. Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Mrs. Catherine G. Curran George B. Adams, Jr. Joseph Rosen Foundation Foundation Mrs. Martin S. Davis Allen Adler Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation Mrs. Russell B. Aitken The Alice Tully Foundation Bruce Kovner Professor Mervin R. Dilts Frederick H. S. Allen Werner H. Kramarsky William W. Donnell Alouette Fund of the New York $25,000 to $49,999 Henry R. Kravis Foundation, Inc. Dr. William H. Eells Community Trust Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Berens Samuel H. Kress Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. D. Firth Mrs. Philip Alperdt Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burke The H. Frederick Krimendahl II Marina Kellen French Foundation American Contex Corporation Charina Foundation, Inc. Foundation Sylvia Howard Fuhrman Mrs. R. L. Ardrey The Chilton Foundation LBC Foundation Peter H. Gleason Charlotte P. Armstrong The Charles Engelhard Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Lepow Mr. and Mrs. George J. Grumbach, Jr. Ars Liber Fund of the Jewish The Armand G. Erpf Fund Hunter Lewis and Elizabeth Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grunwald Communal Fund Ervika Foundation Sidamon-Eristoff Mrs. James B. Gubelmann Helen-Mae and Seymour Askin Fund Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert The Arthur Loeb Foundation Bob P. Haboldt of the Jewish Communal Fund New York State Council on the Arts Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Howat Family Foundation Ronald R. Atkins New York Stock Exchange Merrill Lynch & Co. The Indian Point Foundation Gillian Attﬁeld Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Morgan Ingalls & Snyder LLC Mrs. Robert F. August Herbert J. Seligmann Charitable Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. David A. Jones David E. Austin Trust Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgan II Jonathan H. Kagan The Theodore & Ruth Baum Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Morgan Stanley Mrs. Francis Kettaneh Charitable Foundation Diane A. Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Klein The Beim Charitable Trust $10,000 to $24,999 The Palm Foundation Christopher Knowlton Katrin Bellinger Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation The AJ Perella Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kramarsky Flora W. Benas Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Bass Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ricciardi Patricia P. Irgens Larsen Charitable Herbert C. Bernard Beyer Blinder Belle Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Foundation, Inc. T. Roland Berner Fund Jean A. Bonna May and Samuel Rudin Family The Lehrman Institute Rosamond Bernier Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese Foundation, Inc. The William M. and Sahra T. Lese Charles P. Bolton Mr. and Mrs. William T. Buice III F. J. Sciame Construction Co., Inc. Family Fund T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Castlerock Asset Management Mr. and Mrs. James Baker Sitrick Mr. and Mrs. Ira A. Lipman Mrs. James E. Burke Margaret A. Chisholm Charitable The Taubman Company, LLC Mr. and Mrs. John D. Macomber David J. Callard Trust Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von John A. Manley Jay E. Cantor Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Cohen Hoffmann Mrs. Otto Manley David Giles Carter Mr. and Mrs. Michel David-Weill Walker Family Foundation Mariposa Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Drew G. L. Chapman Flobelle Burden Davis The Rosalind P. Walter Foundation Helen Zanetti Marx Charter Oak Partners Managers, LP Mr. and Mrs. Pierre J. de Vegh The Whitehead Foundation Janet Mavec Guy Christie Mrs. Charles H. Dyson Frederick B. Whittemore Diana L. Mercer Thomas le Claire Famurb Company Malcolm Hewitt Wiener MetLife Foundation Hope Fay Cobb Foundation, Inc. Miles Morgan Jonathan L. Cohen Foundation

14 Coles Family Foundation Huyler C. Held Mr. and Mrs. Russell P. Pennoyer Mark L. Villamar and Esther Milsted Combined Jewish Philanthropies The Carl B. and Ludmila S. Hess Ivan E. Phillips Elizabeth von Habsburg Edward T. Cone Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Brenda Weeks-Nerz Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cooper Frederic K. Howard Mr. and Mrs. Oscar S. Pollock The J. and H. Weldon Cosentini Associates Caroline Howard Hyman Paul R. Provost Foundation, Inc. The Cowles Charitable Trust Janklow Foundation David N. Redden Shelby White Mr. and Mrs. Warren Cox Alexander B. V. Johnson and Samuel P. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Robert Whiteford Mary Sharp Cronson Roberta Olson Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc. Wiccopee Fund Dalton School Marianne G. Miani Johnson Rexford Fund, Inc. Wildenstein & Co., Inc. D. Ronald Daniel and Lise Scott Elizabeth Kahn-Ingleby David Alan Richards Angus Wilkie Peggy and Richard M. Danziger Gilbert E. Kaplan The Very Reverend Sturgis L. Riddle Francis H. Williams The Arthur Vining Davis Thomas B. Ketchum David Rockefeller Phillip M. Winegar Foundations The Walter C. Klein Foundation, Inc. The Felix & Elizabeth Rohatyn Esther & Morton Wohlgemuth John W. Day Andrew Klemmer Foundation Foundation, Inc. The Debs Foundation T. Peter Kraus Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Andrea Woodner Elizabeth de Cuevas Armin Kunz and Catherine Bindman Fund, Inc. Richard S. Zeisler JoAnn and J. Dennis Delaﬁeld George Labalme, Jr. Arthur Ross Foundation, Inc. Anonymous (1) Hester Diamond Mrs. George N. Lindsay The Judith Rothschild Foundation Laura White Dillon Jon A. Lindseth Mrs. Henry H. Rousseau $400 to $999 Dobkin Family Foundation Rich and Rebecca Lindsey Dr. and Mrs. Nathan E. Saint- Ethel & Philip Adelman Charitable Domitilia M. dos Santos Mr. and Mrs. Troland S. Link Amand Foundation The Eberstadt-Kuffner Fund, Inc. Elizabeth Locke Jewels Alan E. Salz Joan Taub Ades and Alan M. Ades Dr. Alan M. Edelson John Nichols Loeb, M.D. Samalexa Charitable Foundation Elizabeth Lawrence Anderson Robert M. Edsel Robert Loper Sayn-Wittgenstein Fine Art, Inc. Whitney B. Armstrong George D. Edwards, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Robert Lovejoy The Schiff Foundation Robert H. B. Baldwin Nicolas H. Ekstrom The Low Foundation, Inc. Caroline F. Schimmel Mr. and Mrs. C. Minor Barringer Mr. and Mrs. John Elliott, Jr. David Lowenherz Susan Schinitsky Anne H. Bass Enriquez-Bocobo/Smith Charitable Lutz and Carr CPAs, LLP Mrs. Andrew C. Schirrmeister Dr. Marion Bass and Mr. Samuel E. Fund Magowan Family Foundation, Inc. Mary C. Schlosser Bass Richard L. Feigen The Malkin Fund Inc. Thomas Schumacher and Matthew Fred D. Bentley, Sr. The Finkelstein Foundation Alan Emil Manley White Helen L. Bing Richard B. Fisher Audrey Mina Manley Mr. and Mrs. Stanley DeForest Scott Helen D. Blackeby Martha J. Fleischman Catherine M. Manley The Evelyn Sharp Foundation Dr. Hans Bollmann Mrs. Roland Folter Edward P. Manley Mr. and Mrs. E. Ward Smith F. J. Borne Forbes Foundation Sarah Manley Suzette de Marigny Smith Charitable Goodwin M. Breinin, M.D. Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation, Inc. Alexander P. Marchessini Foundation Barbara Bellin Brenner Robert L. Freedman Carl Marks & Co. Inc. Sharon Dunlap Smith Elizabeth A. R. and Ralph S. The Frelinghuysen Foundation The Rose Marrow Fund Mrs. Herman Sokol Brown, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John French III Francis S. Mason, Jr. Thomas T. Solley Professor Mary Carruthers Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Friedman Stephen C. Massey Mrs. Frederick Stafford Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Cassilly Mrs. Andrew Gagarin Robert J. Mayer Anne Bigelow Stern Mrs. Robert Horne Charles Milton McC. Gatch Virginia McManus The Stevenson Group Frederick S. Clark Stephen A. Geiger Ronay and Richard L. Menschel Stevenson Lumber Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Barry J. Cohen Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Josephine A. Merck Alan N. Stone Steven K. Copulsky David and Susan Gilbert Mrs. August R. Meyer George C. Strachan and Jaclyn R. Cotsen 1985 Trust Richard Gilder Mrs. Garﬁeld L. Miller III Veneroso Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Couper Golden Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Miller Frank S. Streeter Cream Hill Foundation Lionel Goldfrank III Jose Ephim Mindlin Stribling & Associates, Ltd. The Harlan Crow Library Dorothy Tapper Goldman Andrea Leeds Miron Studio for Civil Architecture Mr. and Mrs. Arturo Cuellar Gourary Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Clement C. Moore II Melinda and Paul Sullivan Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman The Oliver R. Grace Charitable Peter A. Morgan Swann Galleries, Inc. Charles C. Cunningham, Jr. Foundation The Vincent Mulford Foundation G. Thomas Tanselle Julia B. Curtis Lorna Hyde Graev Mrs. Gilberto Munguia Gerda Taranow Sylvia de Cuevas Marjorie S. Graff Otto Naumann John M. Thayer Dr. Christopher de Hamel Mrs. David Granger Mrs. C. F. Naumburg Thornwillow Press Ltd. Baron Alexis de Redé Henry S. Grew James W. Needham and Florence Jane Timken Davida Deutsch Gumpel-Lury Foundation Fearrington Polly M. and John M. Timken, Jr. Charles E. Dorkey III Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger The Polly and John M. Timken, Jr. Marianne Elrick-Manley Mr. and Mrs. John Guth Foundation, Inc. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Henry Elstein Hall & Knight (USA) Ltd. Christopher North Dr. and Mrs. Constantine T. Tsitsera Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Mimi Halpern and Stephen Morrow Mrs. Greenway O’Dea Ursus Books Ltd. Robert F. Erburu Hansen & Hansen Insurance Thomas M. O’Flynn and Cheryl Barr Vaughn Foundation Fund Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Erhart Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Paratus Group Engineers The Paula Vial Fund of the Jewish James Faber Ltd. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Pennoyer Communal Fund Hortense F. Feldblum

15 Duke Roberto Ferretti di D. R. Lund Mr. and Mrs. Grant Smith MATCHING GIFTS AND GIFTS IN Castelferreto Dean E. MacDonald Mrs. Joe D. Smith, Jr. KIND Mrs. Carl Fisher Mary Ann O’Brian Malkin George T. Spera, Jr. and Jane Bank of America William L. Floyd Jane N. P. Mallinson Ginsburg Bunge Corporation Marian K. Frelinghuysen The Marks Family Foundation Margot van Bers Streeter ExxonMobil Corporation Jonathan Galassi DeCourcy E. McIntosh Samuel Allen Streit IBM Corporate Matching Grants Richard T. Garner Richard Miller Heribert Tenschert Program Mr. and Mrs. William Garrison Murel Foundation, Inc. Three Cities Research, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Family of Francoise Gilot-Salk Carolie Woods Noble The Honorable John Train Companies Paul Arthur Gismondi The Ricardo O’Gorman Garden and Jane Shoaf Turner Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation Thomas E. Goldenberg Center for Resources in the Gita S. van Heerden The JP Morgan Chase Foundation Judith Goldman Humanities Mr. and Mrs. John Walton The New York Times Company The Goldring Family Foundation Flavia Ormond Richard Wedepohl Foundation, Inc. Hubert Goldschmidt Dr. Zoltan Ovary Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ford Westall The Pﬁzer Foundation Matching Irmi and James Goldschmidt Andrew S. Paul Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wilkie Gifts Program Robert D. Graff Dr. Nis-Adolph Petersen Professor John Ralph Willis T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. Marco Grassi, Inc. Mrs. John Pierrepont Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Textron, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Naomi Wolffer Gloria Gurney Polsky Barbara Wriston GIFTS IN HONOR OF/ Stan Harrison and Margot Steinberg Mrs. Nicholas Potter George W. Young IN MEMORY OF Mark Fehrs Haukohl Dr. and Mrs. Simon B. Poyta Mrs. John M. Young In honor of William Appleton Mrs. John W. Herbert Roy Radner and Charlotte V. Kuh Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Young Combined Jewish Philanthropies John A. High Dr. Gabrielle Reem and Dr. Herbert The Donald and Barbara Zucker Mrs. David C. Hilliard Kayden Foundation, Inc. In memory of Themis Anastasia Brown Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoppin William S. Reese Mrs. Gilbert Zuellig Jennifer Boondas Christine Howard and Philip A. Reeser Mr. and Mrs. Constantine Brown William J. Chu Mrs. Ewing Reilley RESTRICTED GIFTS TO THE Mr. and Mrs. John S. Cover Alexandra O. Hughes Dr. Andrew Robison ENDOWMENT Mr. and Mrs. Donato Lamonaca Francis J. S. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rose Gifts, grants, pledges, and pledge Mr. and Mrs. Anders Laren Martin Hutner Interiors Ross Family Fund payments of $400 or more Mary Laren Beverly Schreiber Jacoby Beatrice Rossi-Landi Mr. and Mrs. Constantine Brown Herbert E. Ruben Mr. and Mrs. Dudley D. Johnson Elizabeth Roth The Estate of Lore Heinemann The Kandell Fund Carol Z. Rothkopf Mary Laren In honor of Robert Duke Thomas F. Kranz Michael A. & Juliet V. V. Estate of Kenneth A. Lohf Mr. and Mrs. David T. Nowland Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Rubenstein Fund Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Kristein David E. Rust In honor of Margaret Holben Ellis Henry A. Lambert Marvin Sadik Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin Jane Lattes-Swislocki Mark Samuels Lasner Dr. Anne Varick Lauder Lucy Freeman Sandler In honor of Deborah Evetts Jenny Lawrence Jeannette Watson Sanger Jessie Schilling Daniel J. Leab Frances Schultz Mrs. Norman B. Livermore Robert B. Silvers In memory of Ruth Luborsky Joyce H. Lowinson, M.D. William Kelly Simpson Lise Luborsky

In honor of Richard L. Menschel Mr. and Mrs. Barry J. Cohen

16 Director’s Roundtable Patron Fellows Young Associates Mrs. Vincent Astor Leadership Steering Committee Anne H. Bass Cynthia Hazen Polsky, Chair Frederick S. Clark, Co-Chair Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Berens Caroline D. Macomber, Vice Chair Vanessa B. Eastman, Co-Chair Jean A. Bonna Wheelock Whitney III, Vice Chair Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese Elizabeth L. Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burke Tia F. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton, Jr. Mary Harding Cist Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Cohen Jed Freedlander Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Council of Fellows Medora Bross Geary Mr. and Mrs. Michel David-Weill Karen Gruber Mr. and Mrs. Pierre J. de Vegh Hamilton Robinson, Jr., Chair Elizabeth L. Hargraves Mrs. Charles H. Dyson Vivien Ranschburg Clark, Vice Chair George Ho Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert Clement C. Moore II, Vice Chair Grace Kaynor Richard Gilder Dr. Anne Varick Lauder Margot and C. Leonard Gordon Reid Masselink Gloria Gurney Deborah Spaeder McWilliams Marie and George Hecksher Class of 2004 Class of 2006 Christopher North Mrs. H. J. Heinz II Kate Gubelmann William L. Bernhard Amelie Porter Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton Virgilia Pancoast Klein Claire A. Cox Courtney T. Pyle Herbert Kasper Sally Lepow Pierre J. de Vegh Philip A. Reeser Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen Helen Zanetti Marx Bob P. Haboldt Juan D. Reyes III Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Clement C. Moore II Herbert Kasper Beatrice Rossi-Landi H. Fred Krimendahl II and Emilia Donald Oresman Susan Palm James Sansum Saint-Amand William S. Reese Jeannette Watson Sanger Catherine Shepard Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Lepow Nathan E. Saint-Amand Hunter Lewis and Elizabeth Julie Tobey Sidamon-Eristoff Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Ronay and Richard L. Menschel Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Morgan Class of 2005 Class of 2007 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morgan William T. Buice III Gillian Attﬁeld Diane A. Nixon Vivien Ranschburg Clark Laura S. Bennett Patricia and Donald Oresman Alexander C. Cortesi Edmée de M. Firth Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Marina French Judith Goldman Polsky Jonathan H. Kagan Henry P. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta H. Fred Krimendahl II Christopher Knowlton Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ricciardi Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Jill Newhouse Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Siri Mortimer David N. Redden Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Christopher Scholz Mrs. Alexandre P. Rosenberg Wheelock Whitney III Sydney Shuman Dr. and Mrs. Nathan E. Saint- Isabel Smith Amand Arete Warren Mr. and Mrs. James Baker Sitrick Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw Ex Ofﬁcio Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Frederick S. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Ladislaus von Vanessa B. Eastman Hoffmann Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Walker Mrs. Henry G. Walter, Jr. The Honorable John C. Whitehead Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò

17 The Campaign for The Pierpont Morgan Library

In January 2002, the Morgan Library announced its plans to expand and renovate its Elizabeth Kahn-Ingleby campus to establish a new era of public service, education, and scholarship. In a brilliant Mrs. Stephen M. Kellen design by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Renzo Piano, the Morgan Library will have Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Klein more exhibition space, a 280-seat auditorium, improved facilities for education programs, Knafel Family Foundation and more space for the care and study of its growing collections as well as a light-filled Patricia P. Irgens Larsen Charitable central court and improved visitor services and amenities. The Campaign for The Pierpont Foundation, Inc. Morgan Library is raising $102 million for the building project and $25 million to augment Estate of Charles I. Lender the endowment. The Morgan Library gratefully acknowledges the following donors who Hunter Lewis and Elizabeth have made gifts, grants, pledges, and pledge payments to either the building project or to Sidamon-Eristoff the endowment since the inception of the Campaign for The Pierpont Morgan Library. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Lucas through The Elbridge and Evelyn Stuart Foundation and the J. Paul Getty Trust Estate of Richard Brown Baker Booth Ferris Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John D. Macomber Mr. and Mrs. Rodney B. Berens Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas L. D. Firth James S. Marcus Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Livio Borghese Mr. and Mrs. George L. K. Frelinghuysen Stephen C. Massey T. Kimball Brooker Foundation The Frelinghuysen Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Shirley C. Burden Charitable Lead Trust Mr. and Mrs. John French III The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Foundation Mr. and Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert Estate of Julienne M. Michel Charles C. Butt Gilder Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Clement C. Moore II Margaret A. Chisholm Charitable Trust Golden Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Morgan Vivien Ranschburg Clark The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John P. Morgan II Michel David-Weill Harry C. Groome III The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation Michel David-Weill Foundation Frank W. Hatch Margaret T. Morris Foundation Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation The City of New York, Mayor Michael William W. Donnell Drue Heinz Trust R. Bloomberg, and New York City The Jean and Louis Dreyfus Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton Department of Cultural Affairs Estate of Mary, Viscountess Eccles Lawrence and Rose Hughes Diane A. Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey K. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan H. Kagan Sherman Fairchild Foundation Maxine Kahn

18 The Palm Foundation Capital Campaign Committee Martin W. Hutner Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Pennoyer COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Morton Janklow Phillips Family Foundation S. Parker Gilbert Jonathan H. Kagan Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Helen Zanetti Marx Sheila Sonne Pulling James R. Houghton David Alan Richards Mr. and Mrs. Oscar de la Renta Richard L. Menschel Patricia P. Tang Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ricciardi Mrs. Oscar de la Renta William B. Warren Estate of Elizabeth M. Riley Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Robinson, Jr. Ex Ofﬁcio Rockefeller Brothers Fund Ex Ofﬁcio Charles E. Pierce, Jr. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Charles E. Pierce, Jr. Mrs. August H. Schilling Jessie Schilling Janine Luke and Melvin R. Seiden Special Gifts Committee We would also like to extend our special Marilyn M. Simpson Charitable Trusts Established February 2004 thanks to the many members of the Mr. and Mrs. James Baker Sitrick COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Morgan Library’s Anchor Society Mr. and Mrs. Peter Steil Hamilton Robinson, Jr. 2003–2005, who have maintained their Patricia P. Tang steadfast support of the Library during this VICE CHAIRS Mr. A. Alfred Taubman period of closure. Each of these loyal Thaw Charitable Trust Mrs. Livio Borghese friends will be recognized in the annual The Alice Tully Foundation William T. Buice III report that follows the completion of our Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Weglicki Vivien Ranschburg Clark capital and endowment campaign. The Whitehead Foundation Mrs. John French III Wheelock Whitney III Lawrence Hughes Frederick B. Whittemore Mrs. Howard G. Lepow TO MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT: John H. T. Wilson Mrs. John D. Macomber Kerry Greene Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Gilbert C. Meister, Jr. Director of Development Anonymous (1) Donald Oresman James Baker Sitrick The Morgan Library 29 East 36th Street List as of March 31, 2004 MEMBERS New York, NY 10016-3403 Ronald R. Atkins 212-590-0328 Laura S. Bennett [email protected] William L. Bernhard Frederick S. Clark Alexander C. Cortesi Elevation drawing (detail) of 36th Street per- spective depicting new structures behind the Jonathan Galassi McKim library and the Annex, and the new Marco Grassi gallery between these two buildings.

19 Staff

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Information Services Financial Services DOCENTS Charles E. Pierce, Jr., Director Elizabeth O’Keefe, Director of Loretta Greaney, Controller Grace Brodsky Brian Regan, Deputy Director Collection Information Systems Mei Ling, Senior Accountant Jack Caldwell Kristina W. Stillman, Director of Maria Oldal, Head of Cataloging and Samantha Attanasio, Accountant Sandy Elstein Finance and Administration Database Maintenance Margaret Chow, Accounts Payable Karen Gerard Carolyn P. Nesbitt, Special Assistant to Robert DeCandido, Database Coordinator Mary Laren the Director Coordinator Cornelia Marwell Deborah Winard, Assistant to the Human Resources Cathleen McLoughlin Director Photography and Rights Sandra Osorio, Director of Human Dorothea Scher Mary DeVone, Assistant to the Deputy Marilyn Palmeri, Photography and Resources Betsy Silverman Director and Director of Finance and Rights Manager Yelany Gonzalez, Assistant Mary Stevenson Administration Eva Soos, Photography and Rights David Sypen Associate Management Information Services Ellen Taylor Joseph Zehavi, Photographer Joshua Feldman, Network CURATORIAL DEPARTMENTS Vahè Tiryakian Lisa Kelman, Special Projects Assistant Administrator Drawings and Prints Michal Klim, Assistant Network VOLUNTEERS Rhoda Eitel-Porter, Charles W. Publications Administrator Engelhard Curator and Department Head Karen Banks, Publications Manager Dan Friedman, Webmaster/Digital Oreste Dutka Cara Dufour Denison, Curator Patricia Emerson, Senior Editor Graphics Coordinator Terry Horowitz Jennifer Tonkovich, Associate Curator Ellia Bisker, Editorial Associate Nina Kong Kathleen Stuart, Frank Strasser Merchandising Services Gloria Marek Administrator and Assistant Curator Public Programs and Education Sean Hayes, Director of Merchandising Joan McCann Franklin Campos, Rudin Intern Yvette Mugnano, Manager of Public Services Heather Nolin Programs and Education Sherifa Ali, Shop Manager Irene Rose Medieval and Renaissance Marie Trope-Podell, Manager of Pedro Anlas, Inventory and Systems Annette Ruberto Manuscripts Gallery Programs Supervisor Thomas Shelton William M. Voelkle, Curator and Natalie Montoya, Public Programs Department Head Coordinator Operations EMERITI Roger S. Wieck, Curator Lia Espinal, Education Assistant Thomas Brady, Acting Director of Michelle Hearne, Curatorial Assistant Charles Ryskamp, Director Operations & Facilities John H. Plummer, Curator and Reading Room Halina Barrios, Ofﬁce Manager Printed Books and Bindings Research Fellow, Medieval and Inge Dupont, Head of Reader Services Jimmie Jenkins, Mailroom Manager Renaissance Manuscripts John Bidwell, Astor Curator and Sylvie L. Merian, Reference Librarian Monica Barker-Browne, Mailroom Department Head Vanessa Pintado, Reading Room Clerk List as of March 31, 2004 Anna Lou Ashby, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Curator Custodial Reference Collection Janise Amis Literary and Historical Manuscripts V. Heidi Hass, Head of the Reference James McCollough Robert Parks, Director of Library and Collection Design: Bessas & Ackerman Museum Services, Robert H. Taylor Peter Gammie, Cataloger Maintenance Curator and Department Head Sima Prutkovsky, Acquisitions and Kenneth Grant, Maintenance Photography credits: © 2002 Christine Nelson, Curator Cataloging Assistant Supervisor Renzo Piano Building Work- Leslie Fields, Associate Curator Anna Blok, Library Assistant Abdo Banees shop and the Morgan Library, Gilbert Parrilla front cover, title page, pages Music Manuscripts and Books Registrar’s Office Sinclair Stewart 18–19; © Todd Eberle, 2004, J. Rigbie Turner, Mary Flagler Cary Lucy Eldridge, Registrar title page, pages 2 (lower), 4–5, Curator and Department Head Patricia Courtney, Associate Registrar Security and back cover; Shawn Ehlers, Ricardo Browne, Guard Supervisor page 2 (upper); Joseph Zehavi, Ancient Near Eastern Seals and Jean-Luc Bigord pages 6 (lower left) and 9 Tablets ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS Beverly Bonnick (lower); © Cultural Connections Sidney Babcock, Associate Curator Gloria Cargill Communications and Marketing Curriculum, 2004, page 7 Chris Monroe, Curatorial Assistant Joycelyn Forde Pam Angelopoulos, Communications (middle and bottom); Robert Eric Grimes and Marketing Manager DeFreitas, page 7 (upper right); LIBRARY AND RESEARCH Cortez Hackett Marina Mugnano, Communications John Abbott, page 12. DEPARTMENTS Verniel Joeﬁeld and Marketing Assistant Conservation Michael Jones The Morgan Library Margaret Holben Ellis, Director Development William M. Jones 29 East 36th Street Patricia Reyes, Mellon Conservator Anita Masi, Director of Institutional Seunarine Maharaj New York, NY 10016-3403 Reba Snyder, Conservator Development Michael Narvaez www.morganlibrary.org Martha Fitzpatrick, Book Conservation Anina E. Rossen, Director of Member Patrick Nsereko Assistant Services Alex Pizarro James Donchez, Art Preparator Elisabeth A. Kaufman, Special Events Roberto Rivera Manager Gerard M. Rostant Lindsay Hansen, Member Services Aneesah Salaam Coordinator Lionel Scales Louisa Wilson, Member Services Assistant Othmane Serhane Leesa Gotko, Capital Campaign David A. Shim Assistant

20 The Pierpont Morgan Library was incorporated in 1924 as an educational institution dedicated to fostering a greater knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of primarily Western history and culture. Originally formed by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), the permanent collections record and reﬂect achievements of European and American literature, music, art, and history. The Library is one of the very few institutions in the United States that collects, exhibits, and sponsors research in the areas of illuminated manuscripts, master drawings, rare books, ﬁne bindings, and literary, historical, and music manuscripts.

To realize its purpose, the Morgan Library has four goals:

TO FUNCTION as a center and source for research and publication in the permanent collections and to promote their scholarly study;

TO PRESERVE and care for the collections that are held in trust for the American people;

TO ACQUIRE, through purchase and gift, signiﬁcant works in the ﬁelds established by Pierpont Morgan;

TO PRESENT the collections, related exhibitions, and interpretive programming to the general public, students, collectors, and scholars in a manner consistent with the highest educational and artistic standards.

The signiﬁcance of the collections mandates a national and international role for the institution, both as an educational resource for the general public and as a research center for the scholarly community.

Back cover: Exterior of the McKim library.