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The Morse Museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), including the artist and designer’s jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass lamps and windows; his chapel interior from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago; and art and architectural objects from his Long Island country estate, Laurelton Hall.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), one of the most creative...
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Collection. The work of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933) is...
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Although internationally renowned for its unique, visually magnificent, and historically invaluable Tiffany collection, the Morse is more than a Tiffany museum. It is also a treasure house of American decorative art from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, with especially rich holdings in the area known as Arts and Crafts.
Of particular interest is the Morse’s extensive American art pottery collection, which now numbers over 800 examples, including almost 500 Rookwood pieces. The Arts and Crafts movement sought to give America-which had been overrun with badly designed and poorly made mass-produced products-a new world of handcrafted beauty. The Arts and Crafts group...
Highlights of the Museum’s painting collection include works by Samuel F.B. Morse (a relative of Charles Hosmer Morse), Thomas Doughty, George Inness, John Singer Sargent, Rembrandt Peale, Cecilia Beaux, Martin Johnson Heade, Maxfield Parrish, Arthur B. Davies, Herman Herzog, Thomas Hart Benton, Samuel Colman, and others. The Museum’s prints includ...
The collection of American decorative art is supplemented by contemporaneous European examples of glass and ceramics. Works by European artists such as William Morris, as well as examples of 15th- and 16th-century stained glass, provide context to our leaded-glass holdings. Other European works in the collection include glass, jewelry, ceramics, an...
Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. 1,729 reviews. #1 of 59 things to do in Winter Park. Art Museums. Open now. 9:30 AM - 8:00 PM. Write a review. About. The Morse Museum is home to the world's most comprehensive collection of works by American artist and designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933).
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History. The museum was founded by Jeannette Genius McKean in 1942 and dedicated to Chicago industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, her grandfather. [1] The museum's first director was her husband, Hugh McKean. The museum was first located on the campus of Rollins College. [2] There, in 1955, the McKeans organized the first exhibition of works by ...
Winter Park This hidden gem just north of downtown Orlando houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of Tiffany’s work. B. COMFORT LODGE, Brickell Avenue, Miami The Brickell Place Condominiums now stand on the site of Comfort Lodge, Tiffany’s winter home that once graced a stretch then known as Miami’s “Millionaire Row.”
(1848-1933) Image: Louis Comfort Tiffany, about age 69, c.1917. From the collection of the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, Florida.
