MUSEUM

JP Morgan Library & Museum
The Rose Haggadah

Hebrew Illumination for Our Time: The Art of Barbara Wolff offers startling illuminations—recent gifts to the Morgan—created by this contemporary artist. The ten folios of "You Renew the Face of the Earth" illustrate passages from Hebrew Psalm 104, a celebration of all creation, with images illuminated in silver, gold, and platinum foils. In the seventeen bifolios comprising the Rose Haggadah, Wolff, while rooted in the tradition of illustrated Haggadot, presents a modern interpretation of the texts used at the Passover Seder.

Here is a link to the exhibit...

A short video showing the artist and her techniques.

It was a magnificent piece of art.  Then in the center exhibit, the museum displays medieval illuminated manuscripts from their permanent collection and they, too, are just wonderful.

The pictures seen here are larger than the very small, actual works.



We walked to the Morgan and Spring is finally here!  The picture with the flowers are in Herald Square on 6th Avenue just outside our door.