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Samuel Finley Breese Morse is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting American painter and inventor Samuel Morse by Byron M. Pickett, located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. The portrait statue measures 13' x 5'6" x 5' and sits on a Quincy granite pedestal.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.
Marquis de Lafayette (or Portrait of La Fayette) is an oil on canvas painting by Samuel Morse, from 1825. Mostly known for his invention of the telegraph, Morse was also an artist and a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York.
Portrait of James Monroe is a c.1819 portrait painting by the artists Samuel Morse of the President of the United States James Monroe. [1]Monroe was the fifth president to hold office, and the fourth from Virginia.
The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fine arts in America through instruction and exhibition."
Samuel Morse – Gallery of the Louvre; François Rude – Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise (sculpture) Ary Scheffer – Portrait of Armand Carrel; Martin Archer Shee – Portrait of William IV; Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bashaw, The Faithful Friend of Man Trampling under Foot his most Insidious Enemy (coloured marble)
Stone had modeled a c.1854 bust of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, who became an advocate for the sculptor's work. [29] Even prior to Morse's 1872 death, Stone proposed a colossal bronze statue of Morse for Washington, D.C. [30] The project would have been the most ambitious of Stone's career, but was never executed: [31]
This is a list of public art by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, also termed their "large scale projects". Oldenburg (1929-2022) and van Bruggen (1942–2009) were married Swedish-American and American-Dutch sculptors (respectively), best known for their Installation art typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects.