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Laura Coombs Hills (1859–19520 Belle da Costa Greene, 1910 Watercolor on ivory; 5 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (14.6 × 10.8 cm) The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, gift of the Estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950; AZ164

The Morgan Library & Museum stands on land that is part of Lenapehoking, the unceded ancestral homeland of the Lenape people.

The exterior of the Morgan Library & Museum’s historic 1906 McKim building will undergo testing over the next several months to determine treatment options for its long-term preservation.

There is only one known sculpture of Belle da Costa Greene, made by Jo Davidson in 1925. In one of her letters to Bernard Berenson, there is an additional reference to a possible sculpture made of Belle Greene's head by the American sculptor Paul Manship (1885–1966):

The Morgan is currently engaged in an ongoing review and revision of the language used in our collections catalog.

The Library is by far the largest and grandest of the rooms in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

The refurbished J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library was celebrated with a series of events on October 30, 2010.

Theodore C. Marceau (1859–1922) Belle da Costa Greene (reading), May 1911 Gelatin silver print 14 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (38 × 27.7 cm)