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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.

Category iconArt,  Art Gallery,  Corinne Melchers,  Falmouth,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio

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

Category iconArt,  Art Gallery,  Artist Studio,  Belmont Estate,  Corinne Melchers,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Robert McGill Mackall

April 25, 2022

Missouri State Capitol Murals: The Backstory

On the heels of his success with the Detroit Public Library murals, Gari Melchers was approached in early 1922 by John Pickard, Missouri State Capitol

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April 20, 2022

Barnyard Revival

Thanks to the careful research and expert skills of Grounds Maintenance Manager Dave Ludeker and Maintenance Assistant Daniel Carter, I am able to

Category iconBelmont Estate,  Corinne Melchers,  Falmouth,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Restoration Projects,  Uncategorized

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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Mrs. Gari Melchers

September 23, 2020

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

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Gari Melchers

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

Category iconArt,  Gari and Corinne Melchers,  Gari Melchers,  George Hitchcock,  Julius Melchers,  Studio and Galleries,  Theodore Roosevelt,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,  Visual Arts

Belmont Studio Interior

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

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  Photography,  Plein Air Painting,  Visual Arts

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