J.P. MORGAN RETURNS ASCOLI COPE TO ITALY; Presents Stolen Art Treasure to the Government. NO LIGHT ON THE AFFAIR American Bought It in Paris -- Man Arrested for Theft Killed Himself in Prison ...

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 ...

Art: Morgan Miniatures. 1 minute read. TIME. March 11, 1935 12:00 AM GMT-5. M onth ago it was announced that J. Pierpont Morgan had sold six of his father’s most valuable paintings (TIME, Feb. 11).

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.

This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P ...