Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and telegraph inventor, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. Some biographers have emphasized... Read full biography
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and telegraph inventor, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. Some biographers have emphasized the influence of his father's evangelical Calvinism on Morse, but much of his early life was spent... Read full biography
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and telegraph inventor, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. Some biographers have emphasized the influence of his father's evangelical Calvinism on Morse, but much of his early life was spent away from home; he was enrolled as a boarder at Phillips Academy in Andover at age eight. He entered Yale in 1805 and graduated in 1810, obtaining some knowledge of electricity (but not of... Read full biography
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and telegraph inventor, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. Some biographers have emphasized the influence of his father's evangelical Calvinism on Morse, but much of his early life was spent away from home; he was enrolled as a boarder at Phillips Academy in Andover at age eight. He entered Yale in 1805 and graduated in 1810, obtaining some knowledge of electricity (but not of electromagnetism, which had yet to be discovered) from courses with Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day. His interest in art was evidenced only by a few miniatures that he painted to help support himself. After graduation he persuaded his father to allow him to... Read full biography
Samuel Finley Breese Morse, artist and telegraph inventor, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the eldest child of Rev. Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Breese. Some biographers have emphasized the influence of his father's evangelical Calvinism on Morse, but much of his early life was spent away from home; he was enrolled as a boarder at Phillips Academy in Andover at age eight. He entered Yale in 1805 and graduated in 1810, obtaining some knowledge of electricity (but not of electromagnetism, which had yet to be discovered) from courses with Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day. His interest in art was evidenced only by a few miniatures that he painted to help support himself. After graduation he persuaded his father to allow him to pursue a career in art and sailed with Washington Allston to study in London in 1811. His terra cotta statue of... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (208)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
An American Point of View The Daniel J. Terra Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Kennedy and Bourguignon(essays
194 pages (color)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume One: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born Before 1865
1999
Tolles, Thayer (Editor); Lauretta Dimmick, Donna J. Hassler
451 pages (color)
Critical Issues in American Art A Book of Readings
1998
Calo, Mary Ann
328 pages
Master Pieces The Art History of Jigsaw Puzzles
1998
McCann, Chris (Author); Louis Darling (Illustrator)
223 pages (color)
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
Eyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997
Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley
400 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994
High Museum of Art
216 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Gerdts, William H (essay); Helene Ahrweiler, Roger Mandle
286 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam
1991
Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll.
271 pages (color)
The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography
1991
Sullivan, Mark W
225 pages
The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers
1991
Weinberg, H Barbara
295 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Painting
1990
Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro)
319 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
Views of American Landscapes
1989
Gidley, Mick/R Lawson-Peebles
227 pages
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
The Hudson River School The Landscape Art (of 25 artists)
1989
Minks, Louise
112 pages (color)
Samuel F B Morse
1989
Staiti, Paul J
298 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Samuel F B Morse
1988
Kloss, William
160 pages (color)
Charmed Places Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios & Vistas (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Phillips, Sandra
120 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art
1987
Neff, Terry (editor)
300 pages (color)
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
The West of the Imagination
1986
Goetzmann, William H; William N. Goetzmann
457 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Masterpieces of American Painting The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1986
Salinger, Margaretta
200 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
The New England Eye Master American Paintings/New England Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Faison, S Lane
1,983 pages (color)
Un Nouveau Monde chefs-d'ouvre de la peinture americaine 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Ministere de la Culture
378 pages (color)
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
A New World Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore E; Pierre Rosenberg, H. Barbara Weinberg (essays)
351 pages (color)
Painting in the South: 1564-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Virginia Museum, Richmond
362 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
Hudson Valley People Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Faison, S Lane/Sally Mills
63 pages
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
Samuel F B Morse (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Staiti, Paul J/Gary A Reynolds
94 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
Larousse Dictionary of Painters (Americans included in world listing)
1981
Smith, Alistair (intro)
467 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980
1980
Galleries, Hirschl and Adler
112 pages (color)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1980
Hibbard, Howard
592 pages (color)
Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design
1980
Novak, Barbara and Annette Blaugrund
213 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
1979
Brown, Milton W (others)
616 pages (color)
Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979
Ericson, Jack T
275 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
American Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979
Teitz, Richard Stuart
118 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
Art About Art
1978
Lipman, Jean/Richard Marshall
176 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum
1977
Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich
268 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
Nineteenth-Century Painters and Painting/A Dictionary
1977
Norman, Geraldine
240 pages (color)
American Art at Amherst: A Summary Catalogue of the Collection At the Mead Art Gallery Amherst College (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Shepard, Lewis A; David Paley, Frank Trapp
252 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
G. P. A. Healy Famous Figures and Louisiana Patrons (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Glasgow, Vaughn L. and Pamela A. Johnson (Louisiana State Museum)
74 pages (color)
Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
1976
Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
208 pages (color)
The Second Fifty Years:American Art 1826-1876
1976
Riggs, Timothy A
95 pages
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
A Bicentennial Treasury American Masterpieces from the Metropolitan
1976
Tracy, Berry and Howat, John
82 pages (color)
A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bullard, E John
119 pages (color)
American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue
1975
Chambers, Bruce W
127 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
A Century and Half of American Art, 1825-1975 (Exhibition catalog)
1975
National Academy of Design
262 pages
The U S A A History in Art
1975
Smith, Bradley
296 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1973
Bennett, Ian
240 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent
1973
Hennessey, William J
63 pages
Art in America A Brief History
1973
McClanathan, Richard
216 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
To Look on Nature European and American Landscape (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Brown University
265 pages
The Hand and Spirit Religious Art in America 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Dillenberger, Jane/J C Taylor
192 pages (color)
The Arcadian Landscape 19th Century American Painters in Italy (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Eldredge, Charles (Intro); Barbara Novak
104 pages
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
Politics in Art
1972
Mondale, Joan Adams
72 pages (color)
Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery
1972
Neilson, Katharine B
343 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970
Lynes, Russell
514 pages
Estimates in Art 16 Essays on American Painters/in 19th Century
1970
Mather, Frank Jewett Jr
337 pages
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
O! Say Can You See The Story of America through Great Paintings
1970
Ray, Frederick E
189 pages (color)
The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes
1969
Canaday, John
1,520 pages (color)
American Art from the Denver Art Museum Collection
1969
Curator
127 pages
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
Art In America From Colonial Days Through the Nineteenth Century
1969
Myron, Robert/Abner Sundell
186 pages
American Painting of the Nineteenth Century
1969
Novak, Barbara
350 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
The Connecticut Artists Collection
1968
Mattatuck Historical Society
84 pages
The American Tradition in the Arts
1968
McLanathan, Richard
492 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
The American Vision Paintings 1825-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Public Education Association
64 pages (color)
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
The New York Painter (Exhibition catalog)
1967
New York Univ Art Collection
107 pages
The Adams Papers Portraits of John and Abigail Adams
1967
Oliver, Andrew
284 pages
With An Eye on the Gallery American Painters in Oil
1966
Dodd, Loring Holmes
251 pages
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Landscape A Changing Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Smithsonian Institution
52 pages
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
The Beauty of America in Great American Art (Country Beautiful Foundation)
1965
Goldman, Eric F.; Tracy Atkinson
162 pages (color)
Paintings in the White House A Close-Up TV Program (tie-in)
1965
Jensen, Amy (others)
46 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Art in New York State New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Kuh, Katherine
126 pages (color)
Great Artists of America
1963
Freedgood, Lillian
254 pages (color)
Four Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Minneapolis Institute of Art
68 pages
A Short History of Painting in America
1963
Richardson, Edgar P
347 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Muse, The
1961
Dorra, Henri
163 pages (color)
American Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery
80 pages
American Painters in Paris
1960
Bizardell, Yvon
177 pages (color)
American Classics 0f the Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Carnegie Institute
40 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Arizona State College Collection American Art
1956
Arizona State College
108 pages
La Pittura Americana Dell' Ottocento
1956
Baur, John I H
58 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
The Arizona State College Collection of American Art
1954
Arizona State University
110 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
Samuel F B Morse and American Democratic Art
1954
Larkin, Oliver W
215 pages
American Painting in the 19th Cent Main Trends and Movements
1953
Baur, John I H
60 pages
History of Modern Painting
1951
Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner
391 pages (color)
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Morse Exhibition of Arts & Scienc 125 Anniversary National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1950
National Academy of Design
181 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
American Landscape Painting An Interpretation
1948
Born, Wolfgang
228 pages
Art Through the Ages (Third Edition)
1948
Gardner, Helen
851 pages (color)
Treasury of American Drawings
1947
Slatkin, Charles/R Schoolman
176 pages
The Hudson River School Early American Landscape Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Sweet, Frederick A
123 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Romantic Painting in America (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Soby, James Thrall/D C Miller
144 pages
Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924 (National Gallery of Art)
1943
Walker, John; James MacGill
112 pages (color)
Painting Today and Yesterday in The United States Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1941
Bear, Donald Jeffries; Janet H. Lineberger (Essay)
120 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
The American Artist and His Times
1941
Saint-Gaudens, Homer
332 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
Gilbert Stuart and His Pupils From Conversations with Gilbert Stuart
1939
Morgan, John Hii
0 pages
The Main Currents in the Development of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1936
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
80 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One
1932
Hartmann, Sadekichi
363 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Art in America
1929
La Follette, Suzanne
361 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)