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About Clayton LeRoy Morse
Clayton LeRoy or Roy Morse, born on 8 July 1913, was known largely as a painter of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Born in Calais (Washington County) Maine, the son of William and Alice Morse, LeRoy must have left that town with his family by the time he was seven because the 1920 Census of Calais lists no one named Morse. The young man began as a student of Scott Carbee (1860-1946) at the Scott Carbee School of Art in Boston, which was established in 1921. Morse also studied at the New England School of Art and Design in Boston and with Aldro T. Hibbard (1886-1972), a leading Rockport painter who spent winters in Vermont, starting in 1925, five years after he had opened the Rockport Summer School of Drawing and Painting. We assume that Morse went to Rockport as a young man in the late 1930s, where he studied under Hibbard. At Rockport, Morse met Emile Gruppe (1896-1978), who became his life-long friend. Peter Hastings Falk mentions that Morse taught in Rockport in 1940 and 1941. Reportedly, Morse was by Gruppe’s side when the latter died, in September of 1978. Morse married Katherine Gracos, whom he outlived. |
Paintings by Clayton LeRoy Morse
| Maine Coast |
| oil on canvas: 20 x 24 inches |
| signed: reverse |
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