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NY Mysteries September 5, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to the Morgan yesterday. Remember actually, physically being in a museum? We had to sign up and were given a specific time: 11 a.m .sharp! Once there, the staff was pleasant and accomodating.\u00a0 At that hour I counted six other people. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the East Room: the Library we saw\u00a0the sculpted bust of Belle De Costa Greene,\u00a0 a member of a prominent African-American family who was secretary to J.P. Morgan and to his son, Jack Morgan. Miss De Costa dropped her father\u2019s surname, Greene, and passed for white. The Library is a sumptuous room: the regal and pious\u00a0 statue of St. Catherine, the rare books, the ceiling paintings and tapestries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bellle De Costa Greene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the West Room: Pierpont Morgan\u2019s Study are the powerful portraits of Pierpont Morgan and J. P. Morgan frowning down at the room.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are contemporary exhibits. I had seen the Jean-Jacques Le Queu exhibit on an earlier visit and treated it like one of those shows you go to for name dropping. I must have had my eyes shut. This time around I was astounded by LeQueu\u2019s beauty and daring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well known photographer, Wally Wentick,  took a glorious, impressionist photo of Central Park.<\/strong>
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Pierpont Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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J. P. Morgan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826)And We Shall Be Mothers Become…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wally Wentick: Central Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brutus Jean-Jacques Lequeu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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