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| Samuel F.B. Morse art links |
Morse was the inventor of the electric telegraph and the Morse code, and also wrote somewhat paranoid religious-political tracts under the pen-name "Brutus".
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Samuel F.B. Morse Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina Robert Shand
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. The House of Representatives
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public Marquis de Lafayette (study), 1825
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York Catherine Ann Russell Nelson (1798-1875), 1822-32
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York Samuel Nelson (1792-1873), 1822-32
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina 2 portraits online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee Mrs. George Watson, ca.1825
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, Stony Brook, New York (Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City 10 works online
Samuel F.B. Morse at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. The Morse Family
New-York Historical Society 2 paintings online
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW! Francis I, Study for 'The Gallery of the Louvre', 1831/32 Gallery of the Louvre, 1831-33
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco, 1830
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Samuel F.B. Morse at The Art Renewal Center
Samuel F.B. Morse at The Athenaeum 2 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Samuel F.B. Morse at CGFA
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Photo Seminars Online
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Samuel F.B. Morse Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
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