February 17, 2017 - June 4, 2017 - Reynolda House Museum of American Art will welcome an American masterwork for this exhibition, Samuel F.B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre (1831–33). Created when the artist was living and working in Paris, the painting represents the famed Salon Carée in the Musée du Louvre. He also included several figures, including himself, in the center, instructing a young woman, and his good friend James Fenimore Cooper, the American writer, shown with his family. The resulting monumental canvas—six feet by nine feet—was both an example of Morse’s erudition and skill and a tool of instruction for American viewers who did not have access to Renaissance and Baroque paintings.
Dates:February 17, 2017 10:00 am to June 04, 2017 04:00 pm
Address:2250 Reynolda Road , Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27106 , United States
Phone:888.663.1149
Contact:Reynolda House Museum of American Art
Website:http://www.reynoldahouse.org/exhibitions/detail/samuel-fb-morses-gallery-of-the-louvre-and-the-art-o