Artist

Samuel F. B. Morse

born Charlestown, MA 1791-died New York City 1872
Media - 1919.1.1 - SAAM-1919.1.1_1 - 248
Horatio Greenough, Samuel F. B. Morse, 1831, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Edward L. Morse, 1919.1.1
Also known as
  • Samuel Finley Breese Morse
  • Samuel Morse
  • S. F. B. Morse
Born
Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • London, England
  • Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Nationalities
  • American

Exhibitions

A painting of a bridge made from nature.
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture
May 14, 2021–July 11, 2021
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The groundbreaking exhibition Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture reveals how the influential naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American