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In the News

Here, we’ve curated external content about Gari Melchers Home & Studio and American artist Gari Melchers’ life and career.

2026

New book featuring Corinne Melchers:  Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870–1970

2025

An Unlikely Farmer Between the World Wars: Corinne Melchers at Belmont in Virginia (The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 2025, Vol. 133, No. 3)

Video:  Stafford County highlights historic legacy, (Fox 5 Washington DC, October 1, 2025)

Painter Weatherly Stroh Leaves a Bold Mark (Equestrian Living, Sept/Oct 2025)

Where memory falters, program at Gari Melchers pictures new connections (Fredericksburg Free Press, March 2025)

2024

Artful Escapes: A tour through timeless studios and creative sanctuaries. (Virginia Living Magazine, December 2024)

Nab distinctive gifts at these top museum gift shops (Virginia Living Magazine, July 10, 2024)

Art Opening: The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917 (CT Examiner, September 6, 2024)

The joy from beeping eggs at Belmont (March 2024)

Beeping egg hunt at Melchers a treat for visually-impaired children (Fredericksburg Free Press, March 16, 2024)

2023

This 1927 The Detroit News clip of the Detroit Institute of Arts grand opening features rare footage of artist Gari Melchers beginning at 1:11. (June 20, 2023)

Accessible Tours  [Passcode: &P4aE3hm]
Home Improvement 2023: Innovation, Inclusion, and Inspiration

2023 Beeping Egg Hunt (April 2023)

The Language of Love:  7 Stories of Connection at Historic Sites (National Trust for Historic Preservation, February 2021)

2022

Why the U.S. Rejected—Then Embraced—a Detroit Industrialist’s Rare Collection of Asian Art At the Smithsonian (Smithsonian Magazine, December 16, 2022)

Tour Stafford, Virginia launches on of the first Visitor Smart City Kiosk Experiences in the Commonwealth (Tour Stafford Virginia Blog, October, 2022)

11 Historic Artists’ Home & Studios to Enjoy the Changing Seasons (National Trust for Historic Preservation, October 21, 2022)

New Law Requires NY Museums to Label Nazi-Looted Art, (Hyperallergic, August 17, 2022)

UMW Prioritizes Access and Affordability With New Scholarship for In-State Undergraduates (June 28, 2022)

2021

Nazi-looted Van Gogh painting could fetch $30 million (CNN, October 18, 2021)

How a Canajoharie Museum Unknowingly Acquired a Painting Stolen by Nazis (Capital Region News, February 24, 2021)

2020

‘American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection’ Will Travel to Several Museums (ArtFixDaily, November 29, 2020)

Painting returned 87 years after Nazis stole it from a Jewish family in Berlin (CNN, October 16, 2020)

Jewish family’s painting looted by Nazis in 1933 is returned (Associated Press, October 15, 2020)

United States Secures Return of Artwork 87 Years After Nazis Looted it from Jewish Family in Berlin (United States Department of Justice, October 15, 2020)

FBI returns painting stolen by Nazis to owners heirs (Houston Chronicle, October 15, 2020)

Inside the Homes and Studios of 13 American Artists: A new book guides readers through the historic spaces of artists from Edward Hopper to Jackson Pollock (Architectural Digest, June 24, 2020)

Artistic Offices, (The Magazine Antiques, June 2020)

Zoom Meeting Backgrounds Just Got a Lot More Glamorous (The Theology of Home, May 26, 2020)

The Paradox of Gari Melchers (Telfair Museums, April 13, 2020)

15 Free Historical Coloring Books and Pages to Download (National Trust for Historic Preservation, April 23, 2020)

Widewater State Park will honor Stafford artist who depicted black life in America

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