Whenever American artist Gari Melchers (1860-1932) found something he thought especially aesthetically pleasing, he tended to incorporate it in his
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.
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
Black Hawk Life Cast Used for Gari Melchers’ ‘Conspiracy of Pontiac’ Mural
Gari Melchers Home and Studio docent Murray Corliss contributed to this post. This life cast, or three-dimensional plaster cast made from a mold of
Pink Gallery Walls?
Our guests often ask if the unusual pink wall color in the studio's gallery rooms is original to Gari Melchers' time. The answer is no. The color
Theodore Roosevelt’s Portrait by Gari Melchers
An article that appears in the most recent issue of the White House History Quarterly takes a deep dive into 1909 when Charles Lang Freer commissioned
“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
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