A new exhibition at the Morgan Library explores the legacy of its inaugural director, who amassed a trove of rare books and prints while passing as a White woman in segregated America.

Jo Davidson can remember slaving at an ironing board and reading a book between strokes. He studied art in Paris at the Beaux Arts, and in the U. S. with Sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil and Painter ...

As a portrait sculptor, Jo Davidson had no peer in the U.S., and his bounce was as remarkable as his skill. He set himself no less a task than to sculpt “a plastic history of my time,” and the ...

It was given in tribute to the late Jo Ann Davidson, the trailblazing first ... scheduled to be unveiled in 2026. She said the sculpture, designed by Brenda Councill, will celebrate the collective ...