On Exhibit
Exhibitions in the Museum’s galleries are changed periodically to enable the public to see more of the permanent collection and to bring a broader understanding of developments in American art. Current exhibitions on view include:
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At Home with Roseville Pottery
October 18, 2011 through October 07, 2012
Morse Museum vignettes—a tradition established by Museum founder Jeannette Genius McKean—are themed interior scenes developed from objects in the collection. The Morse will display about three dozen new acquisitions of Roseville ceramic objects representing the rich colors and beloved patterns that made the pottery so popular in its era.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany’s
Laurelton HallOngoing
The Morse Museum’s new wing provides, for the first time, long-term public access to its collection of art and architectural objects from Louis Comfort Tiffany’s celebrated Long Island home, Laurelton Hall.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Life and Art
Ongoing
Reflecting on his artistic career at a celebration of his 68th birthday in 1916, Louis Comfort Tiffany characterized his work across various media as a lifelong “quest of beauty.” Few artists have been as energetic or as successful as was Tiffany (1848–1933) in establishing that aesthetic ideal in the American home. Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Life and Art examines through art objects, archival documents, and artifacts Tiffany’s astonishingly diverse work in the decorative arts over the course of his lifetime.
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Tiffany Chapel
Ongoing
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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Secrets of Tiffany Glassmaking
Ongoing
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
Ongoing
The Museum's gallery of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings includes a broad span of time, about 1850 through the 1920s, and a great variety of styles.
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Art Jewelry, Favrile Metalwork & Precious Glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany
Ongoing
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
Ongoing
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
Ongoing
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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