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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 for a special issue of Stieglitz’s journal, Camera Work, her unpublished portrait of Gertrude Stein, and her personal collection of modern art pieces.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.
 
This brown bag lunch is sponsored by the ABAA Mid-Atlantic Chapter.
 
 
Belle da Costa Greene and Modern Art
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
2 PM ET
 
 
Deborah ParkerDeborah Parker is Professor of Italian Emerita at the University of Virginia. Her books include She Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance, (1992), Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (2000) and Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing (2011) and the co-author, along with Mark Parker of  The Attainable Text: The Special Edition DVD and the Study of Film (2011), Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown (2013), and Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy ((2017). Her most recent book is Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian Through Her Letters (2024). Read full bio here...
 
Henri Matisse, Nude (1912), The Morgan Library & Museum, NY, gift of estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
Henri Matisse, Nude (1912), The Morgan Library & Museum, NY, gift of estate of Belle da Costa Greene, 1950.
 
 

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