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The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
445 North Park Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-645-5311

Take a photo tour of the Morse Museum of American Art.

The Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, FL, contains the most comprehensive collection of the works by Louis Comfort Tiffany including his heralded lamps, signature leaded-glass windows and mosaic masterpiece. Also included is the chapel he designed for the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago.

Free Friday Evenings at the Morse Museum of Art
Every Friday Evening, starting at the beginning of November until the end of April, the Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park remains open until 8 p.m. and free to all visitors between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Laurelton Hall
Currently the exhibition celebrating Tiffany’s Long Island estate, Laurelton Hall, with almost 100 objects from the Tiffany mansion - including leaded-glass windows, blown glass and pottery and historical photos and architectural plans - are on loan to the Met. The museum also has a distinguished collection of American Art Pottery and a representative collection of late 19th and early 20th-century American painting and decorative art.

Louis Comfort Tiffany's 1893 Chapel for the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Orientalism - An Eye for the Exotic
August 15, 2007 through August 2008

This vignette presents objects collected by Hugh and Jeannette McKean that richly express the late-19th and early-20th century fascination of the West with the art and design of such exotic places as Japan, North Africa, Iran (Persia), Turkey, Algeria, India and China. It will include a selection of works designed by Tiffany Studios, Rookwood Pottery, as well as artists of the period, both known and unknown, who were inspired by the Orient.
In the 19th century, technology, trade, and politics opened exotic locations to both travel and the imagination. In homes and galleries, as in this vignette, imported objects from exotic lands mingled with European and American versions of Oriental art, designs, scenes and life. More...

The Quest of Beauty – Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Life and Art
November 6, 2007 through 2008

Alongside some of the main known facts of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s life (1848-1933), this exhibition presents some of the personal objects Tiffany owned, various records and awards, and many of his artistic creations to provide an appreciation that biography can bring to art. Objects will range from an 1865 sketch album brought by a 17-year-old Tiffany on his first visit to Europe to silver-and-ivory cuff links worn by the artist.
The exhibition will also include some leaded-glass windows and other works from the most extensive personal project of Tiffany’s career, the country estate he built on Long Island between 1902 and 1905. In 1916, Tiffany characterized his work across various media as a lifelong “quest of beauty.” If this quest serves the broadest understanding of Tiffany’s art, the intent of the exhibition is to show that different phases of his life can provide more particular insights.

Free Public Events at the Museum

• Christmas in the Park
• Christmas Eve Open House
• Easter Weekend Open House - The Museum is open to the public, Friday thru Sunday, Easter Weekend.
• Independence Day Open House - The Museum is open on Independence Day in conjunction with the City of Winter Park's Old Fashioned July 4th Celebration in Central Park.

The Morse's Park Avenue galleries opened on July 4, 1995. They were developed from former bank and office buildings. The redesign linked two buildings with a tower in a simple modified Mediterranean style meant to blend with the surrounding cityscape. Today, after an additional expansion to install the Tiffany Chapel from the 1893 Chicago world’s fair, the Museum has more than 11,000 square feet of exhibition space – nearly three times the gallery space in its former location on Welbourne Avenue.

Jeannette Genius McKean founded the Museum formerly known as the Morse Gallery of Art on the Rollins College campus in 1942. The Museum was relocated to Welbourne Avenue in 1977, and its name was changed to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.

Since its opening 10 years ago on Park Avenue, the Museum has worked to strengthen both the aesthetic and scholarly quality of the exhibitions it mounts from the collection that the McKeans assembled over a 50-year period.

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