The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty - Seventh Street, the witty, poetry - loving art
lover became a legend of the avant - garde, showing the work of artists such as Mark di Suvero, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Donald Judd, and others.Born to an American father and a Chinese mother in a Cincinnati suburb, Bellamy moved to New York and made a life for himself between the Beat orbits of Provincetown and white - glove events such as the Guggenheim's opening gala.