A single-painting exhibition, A New Look: Samuel F. B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” provided visitors with an in-depth exploration of this major work following its conservation in 2010. Best known today as the inventor of the telegraph and Morse code, Morse painted the immense Gallery of the Louvre—an imagined display of works at the Louvre that he felt had cultural and art historical significance—during an extended visit to Paris. Shown at three venues—Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C., and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the exhibition was the subject of imaginative installations and scholarly and public programs.
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