Jeannette Genius McKean
(1909-1989)

Died aged c. 80

Jeannette Genius McKean was born in 1909 and attended the Grand Central Art School and Art Students League in New York City. Exhibitions of her paintings were held throughout the world. Her lifelong interest in Rollins College began in 1926 when she studied there for a summer session. She served on the Rollins College Board of Trustees from 1942 to 1975. In 1942 she founded the Morse Gallery on the Rollins campus and created the Charles Hosmer Morse and Elizabeth Morse Genius McKean Foundation to ensure the gallery would grow and operate independently. Thirteen years after she founded the Morse Gallery, she staged an exhibition of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Her acquisitions established the nucleus of the most comprehensive collection of his work in the world. McKean was President of the Winter Park Land Company which controlled her grandfather’s (Charles Hosmer Morse) Winter Park holdings. Jeannette Genius McKean died in 1989.

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