The Morse Museum offers three not-to-be-missed exhibits that aren’t Tiffany glass
In recent months, Live Active Cultures has covered the revival of theaters, theme parks and other forms of performing arts, but I ve largely overlooked the post-pandemic progress of Orlando s visual arts venues. I recently made amends by making my first visit in over a year to one of my favorite Winter Park institutions, the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.
COVID-19 has mandated some changes at the Morse, which now requires visitors to make online appointments in advance and enter the building through a side courtyard rather than on Park Avenue. However, the Morse s marvelously intimate atmosphere has only been enhanced by social distancing measures, making it even easier to contemplate the elegant artifacts with ample elbow room.
Centered around new acquisitions, Morse spring exhibition and vignette now open
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain is now open.
WINTER PARK, FLA
.-The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art is exhibiting new watercolor and porcelain acquisitions for the first time. These acquisitions expand upon the late 19th- and early 20th-century American visual environment generally and the inner workings of Louis Comfort Tiffanys artistic enterprises specifically.
Watercolors from Louis Comfort Tiffanys Little Arcadia exhibits around a dozen watercolor designs by Tiffany artisans in his enamel department. The Museums new vignette, Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, features examples of in-demand Chinese ceramics ranging from around 1740 to 1890 that adorned the homes and interiors of artists, like Louis Comfort Tiffany (18481933), as well as Western admirers of the Asian aesthetic.
Exhibition Opening: Watercolors from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s “Little Arcadia” An exhibition of a dozen skillful watercolors by women designers who worked in the enamel department of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Tiffany Studios, including one, a colorful and sensitive study of a skunk cabbage executed and signed by Alice Carmen Gouvy (1863–1924), recently acquired by the Morse.