It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan's immense collection of books and art ...

Pierpont Morgan — the American financier. During her tenure, she collected parts of the Crusader Bible, medieval works, ...

Referred to as one of the most fascinating librarians in American history, Belle da Costa Greene is the figure who is ...

A New York exhibition pays homage to a Black woman who passed as white and assembled the financier’s private collection ...

As the first director of the public institution incorporated in 1924 as the Pierpont Morgan Library, she spent two-and-a-half decades overseeing every detail of its highly particularized cosmos ...

The Morgan Library was built and founded by J. Pierpont Morgan, one of the richest and most powerful bankers in the early 20th century. It houses a one-of-a-kind collection of medieval writings ...

Curators at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City discovered a music manuscript believed to be by Polish pianist and ...

Polish composer Frédéric Chopin left an indelible mark on the world of classical music, and nearly 200 years after his death, ...

This opened doors for Belle da Costa Greene in segregated America, and she worked at Princeton before joining the research library. There she met a cousin of J. Pierpont Morgan, who at the time ...