This 1990 volume represented the first fully developed study of the
eminent American artist and inventor Samuel F. B. Morse
(1791-1872). It reveals his prodigious achievements in painting and
technology, his passionate ambitions, and his key role in the
development of American art. While covering the artist's entire
career, Professor Staiti gives particular attention to three of his
most extraordinary artistic achievements: the House of
Representatives, the Gallery of the Louvre and the National Academy
of Design. In a final chapter, on the electromagnetic telegraph, an
invention that imprinted Morse's name on our language, there is a
discussion of the conceptual relationship between artistic and
mechanical invention. Also contained in the book is the first
comprehensive listing of the three hundred works of art, both
extant and lost, that Morse is known to have produced. This
landmark book offers an arresting profile of an enormously complex
figure.
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