August Brown Bag: Belle da Costa Greene & Modern Art

Join the ABAA Gender Equity Initiative and Professor Deborah Parker of the University of Virginia for the August Brown Bag on Belle da Costa Greene and Modern Art. The talk will explore ways in which the librarian’s interest in modern art manifests itself–her queries to Bernard Berenson about modern artists, her friendships with Alfred Stieglitz and Leo Stein and modern artists (Francis Picabia, John Marin, Marius de Zayas), her one published article, “What is 291?” for a special issue of Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work, her unpublished portrait of Gertrude Stein, and her personal collection of modern art pieces. Greene also appears as a subject in modernist works.