Mary Minna Morse (1859-)
A pair of watercolors of Sylvester Manor, Shelter Island, NY by Mary Minna Morse.
Mary Minna Morse was born in 1859 in Dorchester, Mass. She was a landscape and marine painter in watercolors, particularly of the Cape Ann shore. She was a friend of Cornelia Horseford who taught at Harvard and lived nearby in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Horseford family were the owners of Sylvester Manor. Mary Minna Morse studied with Ross Sterling Turner in Boston, George Hitchcock in Holland, and Louis Ritter in Boston. Both Turner and Ritter were considered one of the ?Duveneck Boys? in Florence and Venice in the 1870?s. In the mid 1880?s they spent summers with Childe Hassam and others as part of the artist?s colony at Celia Thaxter?s island home, Appledore, on the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire.
Mary Minna Morse was born in 1859 in Dorchester, Mass. She was a landscape and marine painter in watercolors, particularly of the Cape Ann shore. She was a friend of Cornelia Horseford who taught at Harvard and lived nearby in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Horseford family were the owners of Sylvester Manor. Mary Minna Morse studied with Ross Sterling Turner in Boston, George Hitchcock in Holland, and Louis Ritter in Boston. Both Turner and Ritter were considered one of the ?Duveneck Boys? in Florence and Venice in the 1870?s. In the mid 1880?s they spent summers with Childe Hassam and others as part of the artist?s colony at Celia Thaxter?s island home, Appledore, on the Isle of Shoals, New Hampshire.
