Jeannette Genius McKean

Jeannette Genius McKean

Jeannette McKean

McKean, Jeannette

Artists--Florida

Art--Southern States

Painters--Southern States

Painting--Florida

Interior designers

Interior design

Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.)

Winter Park (Fla.)

Jeannette Genius McKean (1909-1989) was a painter, interior designer, and trustee, and benefactor of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. Born in Chicago, Illinois, she visited her grandfather, Charles Hosmer Morse, in Winter Park. On one summer visit in 1926, she enrolled in a course at Rollins, touching off a lifelong interest in the college. In 1942, Jeannette Genius founded the Morse Gallery of Art (present-day Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art) on the Rollins College campus, naming it for her grandfather. She appointed Rollins art professor Hugh McKean as the gallery's director, and in 1945, she married him.

Original black and white photograph: Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando, Florida.

ca. 1909-1989

Digital reproduction of original black and white photograph.

Orange County Regional History Center, Orlando, Florida.

Art Legends of Orange County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Chicago, Illinois

Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida

Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art , Winter Park, Florida

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Cepero, Laura

Twardy, Chuck and Charlie Jean. "Jeannette Genius Mckean, Famed Winter Park Artist, Dies." The Orlando Sentinel, August 11, 1989. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-08-11/news/8908112511_1_winter-park-rollins-mckean.

"Charles Hosmer Morse." The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. http://www.morsemuseum.org/morse-history/Jeannette-genius-mckean.

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