Trent Morse

New York

Senior Editor and Writer at Freelance

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10 Knockout New York City Pieds-à-Terre

1 month ago | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

For an elegant apartment overlooking the Hudson River, the design team at Ries Hayes envisioned a vibrant living room within an intimate footprint. “Our approach to designing a pied-à-terre begins with a deep dive into our clients’ preferences,” says firm cofounder David Ries.
Romare Bearden’s Humanity Infuses His Bright, Bold Art

2 months ago | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

Romare Bearden’s lively artworks celebrate the African American experience in all its complexity — a story pieced together with the same deliberate care and ingenuity he used in crafting his well-known collages. Through his imaginative merging of photomontage, figure painting and abstraction, Bearden captured the essence of Black life in America. His works are both personal and universal, melding influences to create an aesthetic that was wholly his own.
With a Show at MoMA, Marlon Mullen Paints Pictures That Are beyond Words

2 months ago | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

Marlon Mullen’s Desert with Cactus (1997) draws viewers into a landscape that’s both familiar and unknowable. The painting’s biomorphic forms — perhaps there’s a cactus, perhaps a canyon, perhaps an adobe sweat lodge, maybe something else entirely — are rendered in thick layers of acrylic paint on paper. Mullen uses just four eye-catching colors, colliding in deep contrast: stark white, jet black, milk-chocolate brown and bubble-gum pink.
The Vibrant Beauty of Orphist Art Exceeds Its Perplexing Name

2 months ago | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

When it comes to names of art movements, there are those that sound exactly like what you see: Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art. Others lodge in the mind because of their strangeness: Dada, Ashcan School, the Blue Rider. And some are more cryptic, neither clearly descriptive nor particularly memorable: fauvism, postmodernism, Op art. Orphism would fall into the last camp.
Lincoln Glenn Gallery Rediscovers American Artists That Time Forgot

Nov 8, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

In 2018, Douglas Gold’s parents were moving house in Bellmore, New York, and decided to have a tag sale. Among the items they’d hoped to unload were a few exceptional paintings, so they hired Eli Sterngass as their art appraiser to choose the best ones to advertise. Sterngass had one free day between ending his job at Questroyal Fine Art, a gallery specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, and starting a new one at the art-appraisal firm Gurr Johns.
These Fabulously Refreshed Kitchens Have a Lasting Allure

Nov 1, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

In a prewar building designed by architect Benjamin Marshall on Chicago’s Gold Coast, a floor-through apartment had sat untouched since the 1960s. The floor plan wasn’t right for a 21st-century family, particularly the location of the small, dark kitchen near the center of the home. Interior designer Summer Thornton met with the flat’s soon-to-be owner before the closing.
See the Spooky Side of European Modern Art

Oct 25, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

A groundbreaking new exhibition is shining a forensic black light on the influence of macabre Gothic art on some of the most radical painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light,” at Helsinki’s Ateneum Art Museum through January 26, 2025, reframes of the origins of modernism, tracing how artists like Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and Vincent van Gogh drew inspiration from the haunting, mystical imagery of medieval and Renaissance Europe.
10 Beautiful Brooklyn Rooms That Make City Life Look Serene

Oct 4, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

Brooklyn is known as a haven for artists and the epicenter of a certain brand of bohemian style. Here, we look at a few standout rooms in this year’s Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse (on view through November 3) to glimpse what’s on the decorating horizon for 2025 and beyond. Spoiler: It appears that the 1897–1914 Vienna Secession movement and warm tertiary hues are ripe for 21st-century resurrections.
Why Anastasia Samoylova’s Florida Art Is Suddenly All the Rage

Sep 27, 2024 | 1stdibs.com | Trent Morse

The other day, I saw a jacked-up orange Jeep parked next to a corroding International Style tower in the seaside Connecticut city of Bridgeport. Emblazoned across the top of the windshield was an offensive and nonsensical rhyme about working hard and playing hard. My first thought was, Why would anyone put that on their car? My second thought was, Anastasia Samoylova would totally photograph this.
A Dated Midcentury Home in L.A. Gets a Vibrant Refresh – Frederic Magazine

Aug 23, 2024 | fredericmagazine.com | Jill Simpson |Trent Morse |Madeline Tolle

Designer Jaqui Seerman enlivened a dark and dated home with eclectic art, inviting pattern, and lots more natural light. After living in the trendy Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, a young Hollywood couple—he a talent agent, she a TV news producer—wanted to resettle in a more family-friendly area to raise their two preschool-age daughters.