Description: The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Florida, is the recent recipient of a generous and substantial donation of works of art from the private collection of Dr. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., the esteemed historian of American art and foremost expert on Martin Johnson Heade, and his wife, Susan Stebbins, successful author and art historian. The Stebbins Collection consists of seventy American paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by fifty-three artists. This incredible collection includes remarkable works by American masters ranging from Martin Johnson Heade and Thomas Eakins to Fidelia Bridges and John La Farge. Publication of the collection catalog not only highlight this significant private collection built over a lifetime by the Stebbins, but is a valuable contribution to the field of nineteenth and early-twentieth-century American art, and to the history of collections and collecting.
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"The Stebbins Collection is the result of years of collecting by the well-known and widely published art historian and former curator of American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Theodore E. Stebbins and his wife, Susan. Together Ted and Susan created a collection of exceptional American art, including both well-known artists and some lesser known. All the works, however, testify to the "eye"--the awesome visual sensitivity and historical perspicacity--of their collectors."--Laurence J. Ruggiero, Director, The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in the Foreword