About 100 porcelains have just been added by J. Pierpont Morgan to the "Morgan Collection" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was what was formerly the Garland Collection," and even when ...

J.P. Morgan sat for two minutes; one of the resulting portraits defined his reputation. Edward Steichen “No price is too great,” John Pierpont Morgan once declared, “for a work of ...

Hilton Als writes about Belle da Costa Greene, a librarian to J. P. Morgan and at the Morgan Library & Museum, who passed as white, despite her Black parentage.

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 Sonja Anderson - Daily ...

Upon Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued working for the institution under his son, J.P. Morgan Jr.. Morgan's heir transformed the private collection into a public institution with Greene ...