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| Samuel F.B. Morse art links |
Morse was the inventor of the electric telegraph and the Morse code, and also wrote somewhat paranoid religious-political tracts under the pen-name "Brutus".
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Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Samuel F.B. Morse at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
4 works by Samuel F.B. Morse online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Samuel F.B. Morse at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Samuel F.B. Morse
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Robert Shand
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The House of Representatives
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Marquis de Lafayette (study), 1825
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
2 portraits online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Mrs. George Watson, ca.1825
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
10 works online
Samuel F.B. Morse at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Morse Family
New-York Historical Society
2 paintings online
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Samuel F.B. Morse at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
From "Getting the Picture: Illustrated Letters from the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art"
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Francis I, Study for 'The Gallery of the Louvre', 1831/32
Gallery of the Louvre, 1831-33
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Chapel of the Virgin at Subiaco, 1830
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Samuel F.B. Morse in the Art Renewal Center
Samuel F.B. Morse at CGFA
Samuel F.B. Morse at The Athenaeum 
2 works online
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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The History Project at U.C. Davis NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Photo Seminars Online
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Answers.com reference works 
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Samuel F.B. Morse
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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