{"id":64160,"date":"2023-02-02T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64160"},"modified":"2023-02-02T02:24:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T02:24:51","slug":"the-reinvented-life-of-belle-da-costa-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64160","title":{"rendered":"The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Vanderbilt University<\/a>
\nNashville, Tennessee
\n2023-02-14 through 2023-05-14<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023-02-01<\/p>\n

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Belle da Costa Greene<\/a>, 1911<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Clarence H. White, 1871\u20131925; born West Carlisle, OH; died Mexico City, Mexico; active Ohio and New YorkPlatinum print
\nimage: 23.8 x 17.1 cm (9 3\/8 x 6 3\/4 in.) mat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) frame: 51.4 \u00d7 41.3 \u00d7 3.8 cm (20 1\/4 \u00d7 16 1\/4 \u00d7 1 1\/2 in.)
\nPrinceton University Art Museum. The Clarence H. White Collection, assembled and organized by Professor Clarence H. White Jr., and given in memory of Lewis F. White, Dr. Maynard P. White Sr., and Clarence H. White Jr., the sons of Clarence H. White Sr. and Jane Felix White
\nx1983-447
\nartmuseum.princeton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spring 2023 Exhibition and Programming related to Belle da Costa Greene<\/a>, famed librarian for J.P. Morgan<\/a> and expert on incunabula<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most well-known American librarians and experts in illuminated manuscripts (incunabula<\/a>) in the early-mid twentieth century, Belle da Costa Greene<\/a> helped build the renowned Morgan Library and Museum<\/a> in New York City<\/a>. Indeed, she was known as \u201cthe soul of the Morgan Library.\u201d Greene also summered annually with the Vanderbilts<\/a> in their \u201ccottages\u201d in Newport, Rhode Island<\/a>. She began her career as the personal librarian of financier John Pierpont Morgan<\/a>, one of the richest men in Gilded Age America<\/a>. She ended it as the library\u2019s first director from 1924-48.<\/p>\n

Born Belle Marion Greener in 1879, the green-eyed Greene was the daughter of the first African American graduate of Harvard College. She also belonged to the colored elite in Washington, DC<\/a>. She accessed the rarefied worlds of the Morgans and Vanderbilts by \u201cpassing\u201d as a white woman<\/a>. In exploring her reinvented life, this month-long series of events will engage questions of race, color, class, gender, and passing.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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