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May 3, 2019 · Stories. Belle Da Costa Greene: The Black Activist’s Daughter Who Reinvented Herself Across the Color Line. 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.
Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy. To mark the 2024 centenary of its life as a public institution, the Morgan Library & Museum will present a major exhibition devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950).
Aug 31, 2021 · But shortly after his death, Morgan's personal librarian, a woman named Belle da Costa Greene, convinced J.P. Morgan's son, Jack Morgan, to make the library a gift to New York City.
May 17, 2016 · Sharp-eyed and sharp-witted Belle da Costa Greene worked alongside Junius Morgan in the library at Princeton University when her colleague brokered the introduction to his phenomenally...
Feb 8, 2022 · Belle de Costa Greene made sensations when she, a woman, entered the men-dominated art world. Imagine the further sensation if they had known she was a Black woman. Read about her and the Morgan Library in historic newspapers.
Jul 4, 2021 · Their heroine, Belle Da Costa Greene, was one of the most prominent career women of her time. As the personal librarian to financier J.P.Morgan, she pursued and curated a collection of rare...
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.
