To support a scholarly peer-reviewed anthology to accompany the single-painting exhibition Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” during its upcoming tour of museums in the U.S. Tentatively titled Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention, the book examines various aspects of Morse’s painting and represents the culmination of 3 years of intensive scholarly research and exchange that commenced with the painting’s 2010 conservation.