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August 6, 2019

A “Back Stairs” Party to Remember

Recently in my research I ran across a letter composed by the wife of Gari Melchers that I think is worth sharing. In it Mrs. Melchers recounted an

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July 14, 2019

New Historic House Museum Tour Unveiled

We have recently turned our traditional historic house tour on its ear.  The standard 30-minute, guided docent monologue has been torn apart and

Category iconDialogic Method,  Frank Vagnone,  Historic House Museum,  Re-imagined House Tour

June 22, 2019

Picturing New Connections: An Art Program for People with Memory Loss

Sitting in a doctor’s office a few years ago, I picked up an old copy of Neurology Now and read an article that intrigued me as a museum

Category iconAlzheimer's Association,  Alzheimer's disease,  Art,  Art Gallery,  Dementia,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Visual Arts

June 11, 2019

Familiar Face in the News

Reproduced in the 2019 Summer issue of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Magazine is a 1930 portrait painted by Gari Melchers of John Barton Payne. 

Category iconGari Melchers,  John Barton Payne,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

May 31, 2019

Seventeenth Century Status Symbol

Sometimes when our guests enter the dining room and encounter the monumental painting Market Scene (above, 12' x 7') they profess to having seen it

Category iconFrans Snyders,  Gari Melchers

Black Hawk life cast on display in studio.

May 28, 2019

Black Hawk Life Cast Used for Gari Melchers’ ‘Conspiracy of Pontiac’ Mural

Gari Melchers Home and Studio docent Murray Corliss contributed to this post. This life cast, or three-dimensional plaster cast made from a mold of

Category iconBlack Hawk,  Gari Melchers,  Julius Melchers Tag iconBlack Hawk,  Black Hawk State Historic Site and Museum,  Gari Melchers,  John Mix Stanley,  Julius Melchers

April 11, 2019

Pink Gallery Walls?

Our guests often ask if the unusual pink wall color in the studio's gallery rooms is original to Gari Melchers' time. The answer is no. The color

Category iconArt Gallery,  Gari Melchers Tag iconGallery Wall Colors,  Gari Melchers

March 12, 2019

Spotlight on the Golden Age of Mural Painting

Earlier this week, Mark Mitchell, Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, Yale University Art Gallery, visited Gari Melchers

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oil study for Gari Melchers' Communion

December 14, 2018

Now On view!

Much to our delight, our conservators have been busily cranking out refurbished canvases this fall, thanks to generous gifts from the

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