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Belle da Costa Greene was one of the most prominent American librarians and cultural leaders of the first half of the twentieth century. She first entered this room in late 1905, when she began work as the private librarian of financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913). The daughter of educator, diplomat, and activist Richard Theodore Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard ...
Belle da Costa Greene (1879-1950) held a pivotal role at the Pierpont Morgan Library as its first director, and she was a prominent social fixture amongst the rich and famous of New York. Her career and social circles were not possible for a Black woman to cultivate in early twentieth-century America, yet Greene accessed them by passing as white.
Belle da Costa Greene was born in 1879 in Washington, D.C., and spent her childhood between Washington and New York City. After her parents separated, Belle, her mother, and sisters began an existence “passing” as white, a mode of circulating through society, that would affect Greene the rest of her life. Greene purposefully dropped the ...
31. Okt. 2023 · On view October 25, 2024, through May 4, 2025, Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy will trace Greene’s storied life, from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, D.C., to her distinguished career at the helm of one of the world’s great research libraries. Through extraordinary objects―from medieval manuscripts and rare printed books to archival records and ...
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) began working as J. Pierpont Morgan’s librarian in 1905. After Morgan’s death in 1913, Greene maintained a similar role as the institution’s first director, opening the private treasure-house to the public in 1924. Her professional correspondence, catalogued only recently, offers new insight into how Greene maneuvered in a world of books and ...
Below is a list of selected resources about Belle da Costa Greene. It includes the only book-length biography (Heidi Ardizzone’s 2007 work An Illuminated Life), a major Festschrift begun during Greene’s lifetime and published shortly after her death (Studies in Art and Literature for Belle da Costa Greene, edited by Dorothy Miner), several pieces of recent scholarship, online talks and ...
15. März 2021 · The Belle da Costa Greene Professional Papers at the Morgan Submitted by Erica Ciallela on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 2:20pm Belle da Costa Greene was librarian for J. Pierpont Morgan from 1905–1913, J. P. Morgan Jr. from 1913–1924, and director at the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1924–1948.
