Art nouveau in Florida - Current and Coming - Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida - Brief Article

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2002 by Allison Eckardt Ledes

The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park, Florida, is well-known as the largest repository of the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany The museum's holdings were assembled by the collectors Hugh F. and Jeannette Genius McKean, who had a true passion for Tiffany's work They were also intensely interested in the art nouveau movement in both Europe and the United States, and during the five decades they were collecting, they assiduously sought the sinuous and flamboyant pieces that axe a hallmark of this style. An exhibition that focuses on this period as represented in the Morse Museum's permanent collection opens at the museum on February 5. It is entitled Art Nouveau in Europe and America: From the Morse Collection, and includes more than seventy-five objects, many of which are not normally on view. The exhibition may be seen until January 5, 2003.

There is no catalogue of the exhibition.

More than twenty-five internationally recognized designers who worked in nine different countries axe represented by works in this exhibition. Among them axe Liberty and Company of London, L'Art Nouveau of Paris, and Tiffany and Company of New York City. The objects on view include furniture, architectural ornaments, windows, lamps, jewelry, ceramics, and glass.