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July 28, 2023

Spirit of an Artist

While his passing is a real loss to American art, the spirit of his work will always live. Adolph A Weinman, German-born American sculptor Our

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February 20, 2023

Gari Melchers: Our Best Picks

After studying Gari Melchers for nearly forty years it’s inevitable that people expect the curator of the collection to have a favorite. Impossible.

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August 17, 2022

That Darling Irascible Gari Melchers

I’ve shared letters with you from Mrs. Melchers’ archive before, but this one really stands out. It is one of the most revealing first-person

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May 17, 2021

More Melchers Paintings Surface

As curator at GMHS I have been compiling a complete Melchers database for years, 38 to be precise. Over 1650 individual items have been catalogued,

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February 5, 2021

Conservation of Painting Yields New Information

In anticipation of the upcoming webinar program on Belmont's Portrait of a Young Girl with Fan presented by our paintings conservator Perry  Hurt, I

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September 20, 2020

Corinne Melchers: Reluctant Artist

Our benefactress, Corinne Melchers, remains somewhat of an enigma today. Did you know she was a painter? While her surviving letters tell us about her

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July 13, 2020

Gari Melchers: American Master 1860-1932

The name Gari Melchers once held true star power.  At the pinnacle of his career, Melchers occupied studios in Paris, Holland and New York, was

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June 24, 2020

An Artist’s Fascination with Light

As an expatriate in Holland, Germany, and Paris and back in the United States, every time Gari Melchers pulled up stakes he was compelled to find a

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June 1, 2020

Gari Melchers’ Use of Photography

Gari Melchers was a painter in oil, watercolor and pastel. While some explored the possibilities of photography as an art form, the technology held

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