Morse Museum
About the Morse Museum
Founded in 1942 by Jeannette Genius McKean in the name of her grandfather, the Morse Museum was built over half a century with her husband. The Museum was situated on the Rollins College campus for 35 years with the name Morse Gallery of Art. It later moved to 151 East Welbourne Avenue in Winter Park in 1977, and in the middle of the 1980s its name was altered to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.
While the museum holds the largest collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany artworks in the world, it contains works of Thomas Hart Benton’s Old Man Reading (1941) and Edge of Town (1938). His paintings have adequately described the foundation of American civilization.
Works by Thomas Hart Benton at the Morse Museum
There are currently 2 lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton in their collection that can be viewed online:
Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Wednesday: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Thursday: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Friday: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Saturday: 9:30AM - 4:00PM
Sunday: 1:00PM - 4:00PM
Holidays:
Closed on most major holidays.
Resources & Information
Photo of the Morse Museum: Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Info Collection on Louis Comfort Tiffany: https://morsemuseum.org/collection/
Collection of Charles Dickens’ and Thomas Hart Benton: https://morsemuseum.org/on-exhibit/dickens-to-bentonrare-books-and-works-on-paper-from-the-morse-collection/