Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art facts for kids
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| Established | 1942 |
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| Location | 445 North Park Avenue Winter Park, Florida |
| Type | Art |
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is a special museum in Winter Park, Florida. It's famous for its amazing collection of art nouveau style art. This museum has the biggest collection of works by a famous artist named Louis Comfort Tiffany. You can also find beautiful American art pottery here, along with paintings, prints, and decorative arts from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The Museum's Story
The museum was started in 1942 by a woman named Jeannette Genius McKean. She named it after her grandfather, Charles Hosmer Morse, who was a businessman from Chicago. Jeannette's husband, Hugh McKean, became the museum's first director.
At first, the museum was located on the campus of Rollins College. In 1955, the McKeans put on the first art show featuring Louis Comfort Tiffany's work since he passed away in 1933.
In 1957, Hugh McKean heard some sad news from Tiffany's daughter. Tiffany's beautiful home, called Laurelton Hall, had burned down. Hugh McKean had actually studied art at Laurelton Hall in 1930. When they saw the damage, Jeannette said, "Let's buy everything that is left and try to save it."
Because of this, the museum was able to get many important pieces. These included parts of Tiffany's special chapel from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. They also saved amazing stained-glass windows and large parts of buildings, like the poppy loggia.
The museum moved to a new spot in Winter Park in 1978. Then, in 1995, it opened at its current home on Park Avenue. Today, it has over 19,000 square feet (1,800 m2) of space for people to visit and see the art. In February 2017, the museum celebrated its 75th birthday with a special art show.
The Amazing Tiffany Collection
The collection of art by Louis Comfort Tiffany is the most important part of the Morse Museum. It shows examples of everything he created. You can see his work in many different materials and from all parts of his life.
The collection includes everything from large, award-winning stained-glass windows to tiny glass buttons. You can also find his paintings, many examples of his pottery, jewelry, and mosaics. There are also watercolors, lamps, furniture, and his famous Favrile blown glass.
A very special part of the Tiffany collection is the Tiffany Chapel. This chapel was built by Tiffany for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It has incredibly colorful windows, mosaics, and beautiful architectural details. The chapel was put back together and opened to the public in April 1999. It was the first time in over 100 years that people could see it fully assembled. The chapel is about 39 feet (12 m) long and 23 feet (7.0 m) wide. At its highest point, it reaches about 24 feet (7.3 m).
In February 2011, the Morse Museum opened a new area. This new space is 6,000 square feet (560 m2) big and is used to show off art and building parts from Tiffany’s country home, Laurelton Hall.
Other Cool Collections
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The museum also has other beautiful stained-glass windows. These were made by artists like William Morris, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John LaFarge.
In the jewelry and silver collection, you can see pieces by famous artists such as Emile Gallé, René Lalique, and Peter Carl Fabergé. The furniture collection includes works by Emile Gallé, Louis Majorelle, and Gustav Stickley, as well as Tiffany.
The museum also has more than 800 pieces in its 19th-century American Art Pottery collection. This includes about 300 pieces from Rookwood Pottery. The sculpture collection features works by Thomas Crawford, Hiram Powers, Daniel Chester French, and John Rogers.
Finally, the museum has a collection of American paintings and prints. The paintings include art by Samuel F. B. Morse (who was related to Charles Hosmer Morse), John Singer Sargent, Rembrandt Peale, and Maxfield Parrish. The prints collection includes works by some of the same artists, plus Grant Wood, Mary Cassatt, and Edward Hopper.
See also
In Spanish: Museo Morse de Arte Americano para niños
