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3. Mai 2019 · A Black activist's daughter became an It Girl on the other side of segregation. by Sarah Richardson 5/3/2019. Belle Da Costa Greene was the olive-skinned daughter of African-American academic Richard Greener. By the time she started working for J.P. Morgan, she had dropped the "R' from her surname and invented a Portuguese heritage.
8. Feb. 2022 · In 1999, biographer Jean Strouse published her work on J. P. Morgan, railroad magnate, financier, and New York millionaire of the late 1800s.Of course, Belle de Costa Greene is featured in the book – she worked closely with Morgan for the last 8 years of his life as his personal librarian, managing his private art and rare book collection.
18. März 2024 · Terra-cotta bust of Belle da Costa Greene by Jo Davidson (1883–1952), on view in the East Room of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library in 2018 (photo by Graham S. Haber, courtesy the Morgan Library ...
27. Sept. 2022 · Erica Cialella, Belle da Costa Green Curatorial Fellow, and Philip Palmer, Robert H. Taylor Curator of Literary and Historical Manuscripts, discuss Belle da ...
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Spring 2023 Exhibition and Programming related to Belle da Costa Greene, famed librarian for J.P. Morgan and expert on incunabula. One of the most well-known American librarians and experts in illuminated manuscripts (incunabula) in the early-mid twentieth century, Belle da Costa Greene helped build the renowned Morgan Library and Museum in New […]
29. Nov. 2021 · Belle da Costa Greene. Morgan Library visionary. One of the most prominent and influential librarians in history. Democratizer of museums. And, until two decades after her death, no one outside her family knew she was passing as white. We know a lot about public-facing Belle: she was JP Morgan’s personal librarian from 1905 until his […]
15. März 2021 · New Light on Belle da Costa Greene. Submitted by Daria Rose Foner on Mon, 03/15/2021 - 2:00pm. I recently came across a pair of letters that shed new light on the youth and education of the Morgan’s inaugural Director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). On July 1, 1896, the philanthropist and social welfare advocate Grace Hoadley Dodge ...
