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,
Conservation of Painting Yields New Information
Portrait of a Young Girl with Fan, 1626 In anticipation of the upcoming webinar program on Belmont's Portrait of a Young Girl
Wife & Model
While headed to Italy on a transatlantic cruise ship in 1902 with her mother and younger brother, twenty-one year old art student Corinne Lawton
Corinne Melchers: Reluctant Artist
Corinne Melchers, circa 1903 Our benefactress, Corinne Melchers, remains somewhat of an enigma today. Did you know she was a painter? While her
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
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
Wonderful Wallpaper
Wonderful Wallpaper Whenever American artist Gari Melchers (1860-1932) found something he thought especially aesthetically pleasing, he tended to
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
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