New Britain Museum of American Art displays monumental masterpiece by Samuel F.B. Morse
(Artdaily.org)

The New Britain Museum of American Art is presenting the forthcoming exhibition Samuel F.B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention, on view in the Don and Virginia Davis Gallery through October 15, 2017. This exhibition showcases Morse’s monumental painting Gallery of the Louvre (1831–1833), on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago, following its extensive conservation treatment in 2010 and two years of scholarly investigation. Also included is Morse’s preparatory work Frances I, Study for “Gallery of the Louvre” (1831¬–1832). The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue published by the Terra Foundation and distributed by Yale University Press. Known today primarily for his role in the development of the electromagnetic telegraph and his namesake code, Samuel F.B. Morse also had a successful painting career. Created in Paris and New York, Gal