The Stebbins Collection : A Gift for the Morse Museum Hardback

The Stebbins Collection - 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 Cragg Stebbins, successful author and art historian - consists of 70 American paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by 53 artists.

Recently donated to The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Florida, this incredible collection includes remarkable works by American masters ranging from Martin Johnson Heade and Thomas Eakins to Fidelia Bridges and John La Farge, well-known artists Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran and little-known figures like Arthur I.

Keller and Walter Granville-Smith. Publication in October 2021 will not only highlight the significance of this private collection built over a lifetime by the Stebbinses, but it is also a valuable contribution to the field of 19th and early-20th-century American art, and to the history of collections and collecting.