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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

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 11, 2019

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. 

Category iconGari Melchers,  John Barton Payne,  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

May 31, 2019

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

Category iconFrans Snyders,  Gari Melchers

Black Hawk life cast on display in studio.

May 28, 2019

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

Category iconBlack Hawk,  Gari Melchers,  Julius Melchers Tag iconBlack Hawk,  Black Hawk State Historic Site and Museum,  Gari Melchers,  John Mix Stanley,  Julius Melchers

April 11, 2019

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

Category iconArt Gallery,  Gari Melchers Tag iconGallery Wall Colors,  Gari Melchers

September 6, 2018

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

Category iconGari Melchers,  Uncategorized Tag iconGari Melchers,  portrait,  President Theodore Roosevelt,  Theodore Roosevelt

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

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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

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