Lectures and Talks
Each year, the Morse invites recognized scholars in the field of late 19th- and early 20th-century art to speak on topics related to the Museum’s collection and exhibitions. Admission to these lectures and talks is free. Programs take place in the Jeannette G. and Hugh F. McKean Pavilion, 161 West Canton Avenue (just behind the Museum), unless otherwise noted. Please see listings below for dates and times.
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The Hunt and Reveal of the Secrets of the Devil’s Diary
May 16, 2017
7:30 pm
2017 HUGH F. MCKEAN PUBLIC LECTURE Presented in association with Rollins College Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park Robert K. Wittman Former FBI senior art crime investigator, co-author of the book The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich (HarperCollins, 2016).
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Discovering Tiffany: The McKeans, The Morse, and Me
April 05, 2017
2:30 pm
Eric Silver Director Lillian Nassau, LLC, New York City
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Arts and Crafts: Progressive and Conservative Paths
March 08, 2017
2:30 pm
Richard Guy Wilson Commonwealth Professor’s Chair in Architectural History University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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The Other Tiffany Girl: Agnes Northrop, Designer of Windows
February 22, 2017
2:30 pm
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen The Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Aestheticism and the American Businessman
January 25, 2017
2:30 pm
Melody Barnett Deusner Assistant Professor of Art History Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement
April 06, 2016
2:30 pm
Anna O. Marley Curator of Historical American Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Lockwood de Forest as Easel Painters
March 16, 2016
2:30 pm
Roberta A. Mayer Professor, Art History, Department of the Arts Bucks County Community College, Newtown, Pennsylvania
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A Collecting Odyssey: The Tiffany Lamps of Egon and Hildegard Neustadt
February 24, 2016
2:30 pm
Margaret K. Hofer Vice President and Museum Director The New-York Historical Society, New York City
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The Lady in Gold
April 21, 2015
7:30 pm
2015 HUGH F. MCKEAN PUBLIC LECTURE Presented in association with Rollins College Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park Anne-Marie O'Connor Author of The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (Knopf, 2012)
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“Heirloom of the Artist”: Rethinking Whistler’s Peacock Room
April 15, 2015
2:30 pm
Lee Glazer Associate Curator of American Art Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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19th-Century Eclecticism: Creating Victorian Modern
March 11, 2015
2:30 pm
Richard Guy Wilson Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Stained Glass of the J&R Lamb Studios and Its Contemporaries of the 20th Century
January 21, 2015
2:30 pm
Donald Samick President and Owner, J. & R. Lamb Studios Midland Park, New Jersey
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A is for Aestheticism: Reading Politics in the Art of Walter Crane
April 09, 2014
2:30 pm
Morna Elizabeth O’Neill Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th-Century European Art Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Pens: A Very Personal Passion
February 19, 2014
1:30 pm
Geoffrey S. Parker Parker Pens Company Janesville, Wisconsin
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Italian Art Nouveau: A Material Culture of Modernity and Nostalgia
January 22, 2014
1:30 pm
Wendy J. Kaplan Department Head and Curator Decorative Arts and Design, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California
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Orientalism, American Style
April 17, 2013
2:30 pm
Holly Edwards Senior Lecturer Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Gilded Age Design: Excess and Reform
March 12, 2013
3:00 pm
Richard Guy Wilson Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Appreciating Tiffany as Tiffany Values Appreciate
March 07, 2013
6:30 pm
2013 HUGH F. MCKEAN PUBLIC LECTURE Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park Arlie Sulka Owner and Managing Director of Lillian Nassau LLC, New York City
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Forms and Themes of Art Nouveau from the Morse Collection
February 13, 2013
1:30 pm
Jennifer Perry Thalheimer Curator and Collection Manager Morse Museum, Winter Park, Florida
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Paris 1900: Art Nouveau and the International Exposition
January 30, 2013
1:30 pm
Amy F. Ogata Associate Professor Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, New York City
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Priceless: How One FBI Agent Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures
May 10, 2012
8:30 pm
Robert K. Wittman
2012 Hugh F. McKean Public Lecture
Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins College
Art security, protection, and recovery specialist
Former art crime investigator for the FBI
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall: A Mystical Encounter
March 28, 2012
3:30 pm
Richard Guy Wilson
Commonwealth Professor's Chair in Architectural History
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Laurelton Hall: A Museum of Tiffany’s Own
February 22, 2012
2:30 pm
Martin Eidelberg
Author and Professor Emeritus of Art History
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate
January 25, 2012
2:30 pm
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
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Lockwood de Forest—Bringing India to America in the Gilded Age
March 17, 2010
7:30 pm
Roberta A. Mayer Decorative Arts scholar Newtown, Pennsylvania
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The ‘Japan Craze’ on Paper—Japonisme in American Graphic Art, 1880–1920
January 20, 2010
1:30 pm
Karen A. Sherry Assistant Curator of American Art Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
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From Amsterdam and 104th to Christmas in the Park—A History of the Association Home’s Tiffany windows
November 18, 2009
1:30 pm
Patricia Pongracz Spicka Curator-at-Large MOBIA (Museum of Biblical Art), New York City, New York
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Kimbell and Cabus and Modern Gothic Furniture in America
April 01, 2009
2:30 pm
Barry Harwood Independent Scholar, Curator, and Museum Consultant Cambridge, Massachusetts
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The Art of Forgery—2009 Hugh F. McKean Public Lecture
March 10, 2009
7:30 pm
Edward Dolnick 2009 Hugh F. McKean Public Lecture Author and journalist Washington, D.C.
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The Art and Craft of Reproducing William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
February 18, 2009
1:30 pm
Michael Phillips Senior Scholar Winter Park Institute, Winter Park
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The Arts and Crafts Movement from England to the United States
January 14, 2009
6:30 pm
Wendy Kaplan Department Head and Curator, Decorative Arts and Design Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Arts and Crafts Context: Prairie-style Architecture and Furnishings
November 12, 2008
1:30 pm
Cheryl Robertson Independent Scholar, Curator, and Museum Consultant Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Orientalism in American Painting, 1860–1900
April 16, 2008
2:30 pm
Brian T. Allen Director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts
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In Tiffany’s Steps—A Contemporary Glass Artist’s Journey
March 11, 2008
2:30 pm
Joseph Rossano 2008 Hugh F. McKean Public Lecture Artist Arlington, Washington
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Olana—-The Ideal Home of Landscape Painter Frederic Church
February 13, 2008
1:30 pm
Evelyn D. Trebilcock Curator The Olana Partnership, Hudson, New York
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Culture vs. Craft and the Transformation of the American Museum
January 16, 2008
1:30 pm
Kathleen Curran Associate Professor of Fine Arts Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
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A Visit to Barcelona—Art, Architecture, and Design
November 28, 2007
1:30 pm
Laurence J. Ruggiero Director The Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park
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