During J.P. Morgan’s life, he commissioned a garden to fill the space between his home and library building, but those plans were never realized. In 2022, a new public garden was opened.

The Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by J. P. Morgan Jr., 1920. “Jane’s letters are as close as we can get to Jane the person,” he says.

THE MORGAN LIBRARY. Share full article. Dec. 4, 1908. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 4, 1908, Page 10 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as the librarian of his son and heir, J.P. Morgan Jr., who would transform his father's Library into a public institution in 1924.

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.

For the Morgan Library’s 100th Birthday, a Look at Its Formidable First Director Left : Thomas Gainsborough, Lady Walking in a Garden , c. 1785, black and white chalks with smudging, worked wet ...

Apart from the library’s namesake, the financier J.P. Morgan, and its founder, his son, Greene remains the most important person in its history. Thomas Malory, "Thus endeth thys noble and joyous ...