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Exhibitions in the Rondina and LoFaro Art Gallery: About Library Exhibitions

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About Library Exhibitions

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The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, founded in 1899, is the largest, most comprehensive botanical library in the Americas. It is also a treasury of centuries of knowledge about plants and related topics.

The Mertz Library Exhibition Program is the primary vehicle for displaying and discussing the many remarkable holdings of rare books, historic artifacts, archival documents, and artworks housed in the collections of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library. The Rondina and LoFaro Gallery has also borrowed important objects for past exhibitions from institutions, including Yale University (a Monet painting); Cambridge University (Darwin’s letters and notebooks); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Japanese art, lacquers, and woodcut prints); the Morgan Library (paintings); Harvard University (Emily Dickinson’s letters and poems); the Oak Spring Garden Library (paintings, rare books, and mss.); and the American Museum of Natural History (rare books and mss.), among others.

Learn more about our past exhibitions from the list below.

Past Exhibitions

  • A Forest in the City: Centuries of Sylvan Beauty (2011)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 19 views this year
  • America's Cornucopia (2003)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 7 views this year
  • Anna Comstock: Trailblazer in Nature Education
    by Samantha D'Acunto Last Updated Jul 15, 2022 23 views this year
  • Black Botany: The Nature of Black Experience
    by Samantha D'Acunto Last Updated Feb 28, 2022 1352 views this year
  • Buried treasures: the nature and art of bulbs (2006)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 3 views this year
  • CHIHULY (2017)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Nov 5, 2018 9 views this year
  • Chinese Peony Exhibition (2000)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 7 views this year
  • Cultured Conifers: A selection of rare works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library (2004)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 4 views this year
  • Darwin's garden : an evolutionary adventure (2008)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 16 views this year
  • Dutch watercolors : the great age of the Leiden Botanical Garden (2006)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 7 views this year
  • Emily Dickinson's garden : the poetry of flowers : her life, her poetry, her garden (2010)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 29 views this year
  • European Pleasure Gardens: Rare Books and Prints of Historic Landscape Design from the Elizabeth K. Reilley Collection (2003)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Jan 15, 2019 4 views this year
  • Ex libris : treasures from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library (2009)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 6 views this year
  • Exhibitions in the Rondina and LoFaro Art Gallery
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Dec 20, 2021 201 views this year
  • Flora illustrata : great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden (2014)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 2 views this year
  • Flowers by Redouté, Artist for an Empire (2005)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 2 views this year
  • Frida Kahlo's Garden (2015)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 11 views this year
  • Georg Ehret: The Greatest Botanical Artist of the 1700s (2009)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Sep 4, 2018 8 views this year
  • Georgia O'Keefe: Visions of Hawai‘i (2018)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Dec 7, 2018 5 views this year
  • Glasshouses: The Architecture of Light and Air (2005)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 16 views this year
  • Groundbreakers : great American gardens and the women who designed them (2014)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Jan 5, 2019 6 views this year
  • Hirschfeld's Broadway scrapbook (2011)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 0 views this year
  • Homegrown: Houseplants through the Ages #PlantLove
    by Samantha D'Acunto Last Updated Feb 28, 2022 6 views this year
  • How to make loan requests
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Aug 1, 2017 4 views this year
  • Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas (2016)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Jan 28, 2022 4 views this year
  • Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum (2008)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 91 views this year
  • Lichens
    by Samantha D'Acunto Last Updated Feb 28, 2022 45 views this year
  • Monet's garden (2012)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 13 views this year
  • Moore in America : monumental sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden (2008)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 11 views this year
  • Native Plants Summit: Current Status, Conservation, and Outlook for Plants of the Northeast
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 3 views this year
  • Paradise in print (2007)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 1 views this year
  • Plants and Gardens Portrayed (2002)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 1 views this year
  • Plants of Japan in illustrated books and prints (2007)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 0 views this year
  • Redoute to Warhol: Bunny Mellon's Botanical Art by Oak Spring Garden Foundation & New York Botanical Garden (2016)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 11 views this year
  • Spanish paradise : gardens of the Alhambra (2011)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 3 views this year
  • T.H. Everett: A Life in Plants
    by Samantha D'Acunto Last Updated Sep 30, 2022 150 views this year
  • The New York Botanical Garden in Myanmar: Orchids and Beyond
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Feb 28, 2022 16 views this year
  • The Renaissance herbal (2013)
    by Esther Jackson Last Updated Apr 12, 2018 23 views this year

Contact Us - Exhibitions

Exhibitions
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Library Hours

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: 10am - 4pm

Wednesday: 10am - 4pm

Thursday: 10am - 4pm

Friday: 10am - 4pm 

Sat & Sun: Closed 

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