Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Morse Museum Of American Art, 1

If you care about art, American art, and Tiffany in particular, a real gem awaits you in Winter Park, one of Orlando's older and more interesting neighborhoods. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is one of the best "smaller" museum we have visited in the past 20 years of international museum-going. It is by no means small, in terms of square footage, but merely narrow in its focus on American art and particularly that of Louis Comfort Tiffany. We have seen our share of fine glass in the past several years--in Paris, Nancy, London, New York--the Morse can hold its own with those places and institutions. It has even donated some of its collection to the Met. Vicki gives it her highest praise, allowing that it is worth taking a day away from Disney. Plus, entry is just $5. The Morse has a fine website, with better descriptions and appraisals than I can offer. So I'll mostly let the pix speak for themselves.

Unpretentious entry

Glories within

Initially, mostly the stained glass masterpieces





But then, much more...an education in Tiffany's many innovations
in materials and techniques












Lamps too, but by no means as great a collection as what we saw at
the New York Historical

Some of our favorite Wisterias, however



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