On 26 December 2024 My Modern Met reported:
American financier J.P. Morgan was a dominant force on Wall Street during the Gilded Age and an avid collector of books and art. His collection grew so vast that it outgrew his home, and he purchased several plots of land to build what has become the Morgan Library. But prior to this, realizing he needed someone to help him catalog his collection, he hired the woman who would later become the library's first director -- Belle da Costa Greene. ...Greene's accomplishments are all the more incredible because, in a time of racial inequality, she was a Black woman making great strides.
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Born into a prominent Black family, her father, Richard, was the first Black student to graduate from Harvard.
...Now, the Morgan Library is celebrating Greene's accomplishments and her identity in an exhibition that traces her life from her roots in a predominantly Black community in Washington, D.C., to her 24-year tenure at the helm of the Morgan Library.
...The exhibition, part of the Morgan's 100th anniversary celebrations, runs until May 4, 2025.
'Pierpont Morgan may have built this library. His son, Jack, made the institution, but, really, it was Belle Greene who realized their vision and developed it,' shares Philip S. Palmer, Morgan curator and Literary & Historic Manuscripts department head.
'She really is the soul of the Morgan Library.'
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