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After the Ball

January 20, 2017

Melchers’ Tearjerker

  The 1890s saw the rise of the commercial music industry in the United States.  Sales of sheet music skyrocketed, enabling everyday music

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December 7, 2016

Alien Invasion or Picturesque Nostalgia?

Recently docent Trudy Hardcastle escorted a native Dutchwoman through Belmont who shared interesting information about George Hitchcock’s painting in

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simmons

April 7, 2016

Souvenir of the Fair

Back in 2014 I wrote about all the images in our collection that pictured Gari Melchers and the artists who created them. The identity of one in

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers Tag iconArt Institute of Chicago,  Art Institute’s Daniel H. Burnham Collection of Papers,  Charles Yardley Turner,  Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893,  Edward Simmons,  Gari Melchers,  Robert Reid

November 12, 2015

Puzzler of a Painting No More!

I’m delighted to provide an update to my earlier post Another Conundrum of Connoisseurship! regarding a painting, Dutch Bachelor at His

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers Tag iconart,  artist,  Belmont,  Dutch,  forgery,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock,  watercolor

Couple in a Dutch Kitchen

June 23, 2015

Another Conundrum of Connoisseurship!

UPDATE:  "Puzzler of a Painting no More" Recently a gentleman from the Netherlands asked me to look at an untitled watercolor he purchased from a

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock Tag iconDutch Masters,  Edwin Austen Abbey,  Gari Melchers,  George Boughton,  George Hitchcock,  Hague School,  Holland,  Walter MacEwen,  watercolor

Crimson Rambler

February 18, 2015

Another Ramblin’ Rose Graces Belmont

For a renowned figure painter like Gari Melchers, it was out of the ordinary to devote an entire canvas to the view of an empty garden, but the vision

Category iconArt,  Corinne Melchers,  Gardening,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Restored Gardens Tag iconarbor,  Butler Institute,  Crimson Rambler,  Dutch,  Garden,  Garden Club of Virginia,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock,  Holland,  impressionism,  painting,  putto,  roses,  Schuylenburg,  Tea in the Garden,  Telfair Museum of Art,  tulips

photo of Mason Dillon behind the plow

September 1, 2014

Back in the Day

“Back in the day” Belmont in September was a lively place, lively in the sense of human activity as well as the emerging splendor of autumn.  

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers Tag iconBelmont,  fair,  fall,  farm,  Gari Melchers,  harvest

August 13, 2014

Let’s Face It! Remembering Gari Melchers

Hang around artists long enough and you’re bound to have your portrait painted. That explains why there are so many portraits of Gari Melchers by his

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers Tag iconAcademie Julian,  art,  artist,  bust,  Charles and James Deering,  Emil Fuchs,  Felix Vallotton,  Fritz Mackensen,  Fritz Strobentz,  Gari Melchers,  Grand Ducal Academy of Art,  James J. Shannon,  low relief portrait,  Paul Manship,  portrait,  sketch

"St. George's Church," by Gari Melchers

August 1, 2014

French vs. American

A young woman working on the topic of Gari Melchers recently asked me if French impressionism was different from the impressionism practiced by

Category iconArt Tag iconClaude Monet; Auguste Renoir; American; art,  Gari Melchers; French Impressionism

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