The Libraries
Rare books, manuscripts, and archival materials from the Thomas J. Watson Library — one of the foremost art reference libraries in the United States.
The art museum's own memory.
ehind every attribution, catalogue, and wall label stands a library — and the Watson is among the greatest of them, the working collection that lets the museum know what it knows. But its rare holdings are objects in their own right.
Open an artist's book by Jean Cocteau, a Surrealist pamphlet, a finely printed edition meant to be art before it is information. Here the book is not just where art is studied; it is the art.