/PHOTOGRAPHERS/PHER RALPH MORSE

Ralph Morse

1917–2014 · American · 2 plates catalogued

Plates contributed

The 2 plates attributed to Ralph Morse in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).

ID	Country	Section	Year	View
photo-0010	England	Lovers	—	Clervaux
photo-0270	Spain	Relationships and community	—	Clervaux

Notes

Two plates in the MoMA Master Checklist: photo-0010 (#13 Lovers England 26x33 cm) and photo-0270 (#281 Ring-Around-the-Rosy Spain 18x14.25 cm); count verified by grep 2026-05-19. LIFE magazine, nationality American per checklist. Birth 1917 Bronx NY / death December 7, 2014 Delray Beach FL — ICP archive (fetched 2026-05-19) confirms 1917–2014; LIFE archive (fetched 2026-05-19) gives 1918 (discrepancy noted; 1917 retained on two-source basis). LIFE career 1939–1960s; WWII combat (Guadalcanal, liberation of Paris, German surrender); Mercury Seven astronaut coverage 1958+; dubbed ‘Eighth Astronaut’ by the Mercury crew. No fetched biographical source mentions FoM specifically; FoM connection via checklist only. Research file: research/photographers/ralph-morse.md

External biography

https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/ralph-morse

Sources

src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist
src-nyt-2014-morse-obit
src-icp-ralph-morse-archive
src-life-archive-ralph-morse