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,
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
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
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 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
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.Â
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