The Arts and Crafts Movement Comes Alive
The Arts and Crafts Movement Comes Alive
The Arts and Crafts movement has been preserved and comes alive thanks to the efforts of the Morse Museum of American Art, and its founder Jeannette Genius McKean (1909-1989) Granddaughter of Industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse (1833-1921).
Visitors to the museum are able to view not only what is surely the largest collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work, but also the work of Gustav Stickley, William Morris, Carl Faberge and Frank Lloyd Wright to name a few of the giants who were instrumental in the Arts and Crafts movement.
Certainly the center piece of the museums collection are the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The variety of the Tiffany collection ranges from mosaics, watercolors and pottery to his famous leaded-glass windows. Every medium of Tiffany's life work has been explored, right down to the humblest of objects, glass buttons, created as expressions of beauty. These buttons were done with the everyday person in mind.
The museum also houses a fine collection of paintings and prints by American artists whose works were done in or about Florida. Artists such as Maxfield Parrish, Rembrandt Peal, John Singer Sargent and Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of Morse Code and distant relative of Charles Hosmer Morse Are represented along with a host of other well known American artists.
The museum is located at 445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL. 32789 and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Additional hours are added September through May. The cost of admission is adults, $3.00, students $1.00 and children under 12 are free. However on Fridays from September through May 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. admission is free for all visitors. For more information call 407-645-5311 or 407-645-5324.
