‘Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy’ tells the story of a remarkable individual and her relationship with a remarkable institution NEW YORK — Belle da Costa Greene’s life was the equivalent ...

Untapped New York Members are invited to an exclusive, educator-led tour of The Morgan Library's newest exhibition, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, on view from October 25, 2024 through ...

In 1924, J.P. Morgan Jr., known as Jack, opened his late father’s private collection to the public as the Pierpont Morgan Library. Its first director was Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950). She had ...

Greene was born Belle Marion Greener in Washington, D.C. in 1879. She was the daughter of a racial justice activist Richard T. Greener—the first Black graduate of Harvard College—and musician and ...

The name Belle da Costa Greene might not ring a bell, but New York's historic Morgan Library and Museum is trying to change that. A new exhibit called "A Librarian's Legacy" opened this month, just in ...

The American industrialist and financier John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) was a serious collector of objects, books, and ephemera for most of his life, and his avidity and the diversity of the ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The woman in a plumed hat perches on the arm of a throne. She is not a regent, but a consigliere, whose power, wealth and ...

J.P. Morgan was a titan in the finance industry — but he had an unlikely partner in his quest for rare books for his collection of treasures. Reporting for TODAY, NBC’s Laura Jarrett shares how ...

A new exhibition sheds light on Belle da Costa Greene, who built a world-class collection for the Morgan—against all odds. Belle da Costa Greene in the West Room of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library (ca.

This piece is part of an ongoing series on the unsung women of history. Read more here. By all accounts, not much was said in the 1905 meeting between the 68-year-old, walrus-mustached financier J.

On March 27 at 3 p.m., the Friends welcome Dr. Daria Rose Foner, a 2011 Princeton alumna, who recently joined Sotheby’s New York after having served as the Research Associate to the Director at the ...