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Wonderful Wallpaper

May 22, 2020

Wonderful Wallpaper

Whenever American artist Gari Melchers (1860-1932) found something he thought especially aesthetically pleasing, he tended to incorporate it in his

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Visual Arts

May 9, 2020

The Early Modern Masterpiece That Might Have Been Ours

  When the National Gallery of Art opened the exhibition Degas at the Races in 1998, Peter Stroh, Gari Melchers’ great nephew, got to wondering

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Historic House Museum,  Studio and Galleries

March 25, 2020

The Painting That Keeps On Giving

The creation of a work of art, just as with music or poetry, begins with the germ of an idea or a sudden inspiration, suggested by, say, the flash of

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Studio and Galleries,  Visual Arts

June 22, 2019

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

By Michelle Crow-Dolby, Education and Communications Manager, Gari Melchers Home & Studio, updated May 9, 2023  “Viewing art is a

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

July 22, 2018

Looking to Learn: Learning to Look

Sometimes just slowing down in our fast-paced world can make a considerable difference.  Taking the time to sit down and focus on a single painting in

Category iconArt,  Art Gallery,  Children,  Studio and Galleries,  Tours,  Uncategorized,  youth studio activity Tag iconart gallery programs,  gallery activities,  Michelle Crow-Dolby,  museum field trips

June 13, 2017

“Spotlight” on a Melchers Masterpiece

Long before the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.  finally closed its doors in 2014 it was already divesting itself of paintings. One important

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers,  Uncategorized Tag iconart,  art museum,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio

3-D Printing

February 8, 2017

3-D Printing Makes Art Touchable

Ever since reading this History Made New article in UVAToday, I've been determined to offer full scale 3-D printed replicas at Gari Melchers

Category icon3D Printing,  Art,  Julius Melchers,  Uncategorized,  University of Virginia

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

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