PROGRAMS AND EVENTS

• Winter Film Series

  12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

  The Great Artists: The Post-Impressionists: Klimt (50 minutes)

• Friday Night Open House

  4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

  Enjoy free admission to the galleries from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. with occasional programs including live music, art demonstrations, curator tours and family tours.

ON EXHIBIT

• Secrets of Tiffany Glassmaking

  Through photographs, models, tools, and art objects, this teaching exhibit shows the range of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass production, from mosaics and molded-glass jewels to leaded-glass windows and lamps, providing insights into the techniques employed by his artisans.

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• American Paintings from the Morse Collection

  Exhibits in the Museum’s galleries are changed periodically to enable the public to see more of the permanent collection.This fall, the Morse refreshed its gallery of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings with works representing a broader span of time, about 1850 through the 1920s, and a greater variety of styles. The additional selections include paintings by Maxfield Parrish, Daniel Garber, Arthur B. Davies, and others.

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• Art Jewelry, Favrile Metalwork & Precious Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany

  Reinstalled in March 2008, this permanent gallery features about three dozen objects, including 11 pieces of jewelry that Tiffany designed for the new art jewelry division he established at Tiffany & Co. after his father died in 1905.

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• Selected Works of Louis Comfort Tiffany from the Morse Collection

  The first three galleries at the Morse have been installed with more than a hundred objects representing the remarkable diversity of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The installation includes 15 leaded-glass windows, as well as more than a hundred examples of Tiffany art glass, metalwork, lamps, and pottery.

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• The Virtues of Simplicity—American Arts and Crafts from the Morse Collection

  The Museum’s exhibition of American Arts and Crafts furnishings and decorative art—which opened February 17, 2009—illustrates the origins of the movement in Great Britain and shows, through a selection of examples from the Morse collection, how the Arts and Crafts movement manifested itself in the United States, especially in the Northeast and Midwest.

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• Tiffany Chapel

  The celebrated chapel interior that Louis Comfort Tiffany created for exhibition at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago opened as an exhibition at the Morse in April 1999, becoming available to the public for the first time in more than 100 years. The mosaic and glass masterpiece, a testament to his design genius, established Tiffany’s reputation internationally.

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• At Home with Roseville Pottery

  Roseville Pottery Company (1890–1954) of Ohio was one of the country’s most prolific and long-lived art potteries. In this vignette from the Museum’s extensive collection of American art pottery, the Morse presents about three dozen new acquisitions of Roseville ceramic objects, which represent the rich colors and beloved patterns that made the pottery so popular in its era and contribute to its collectability today.

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