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October 14, 2014

A Plein Air Artist’s Paradise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtP97L6vczk Artists of all types and ages are encouraged to use Belmont as the backdrop for their artistic

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Plein Air Painting Tag iconartist,  Belmont,  Cedar Run,  Commerce Street,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers Home and Studio,  In Old Virginia,  Morning Haze,  Nelson Berry's Store,  painting,  plein air,  Snowfall,  Stafford Heights,  The Grape Arbor,  The Hunters,  The Thaw

photo of Mason Dillon behind the plow

September 1, 2014

Back in the Day

“Back in the day” Belmont in September was a lively place, lively in the sense of human activity as well as the emerging splendor of autumn.  

Category iconArt,  Belmont Estate,  Gari and Corinne Melchers Tag iconBelmont,  fair,  fall,  farm,  Gari Melchers,  harvest

June 25, 2014

Looming Yankees: The Union Army Hovers Opposite Fredericksburg–Some Images and Incidents.

Belmont was constructed in the 1800, 116 years prior to the Melchers' purchasing the Falmouth property in 1916. This is an excellent blog post written

Category iconBelmont Estate,  Civil War,  Falmouth Tag iconBelmont,  Civil War,  Falmouth,  Virginia

The Sermon, by Gari Melchers

May 27, 2014

Where is Gari Melchers’ Art?

Gari Melchers Home & Studio holds the largest collection of Melchers' art — 1,677 paintings and drawings. An amazingly prolific artist, Melchers'

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers Tag iconAlbright-Knox Art Gallery,  American Art,  Annmary Brown Memorial,  Belmont,  Butler Institute of American Art,  Carnegie Museum of Art,  Cleveland Museum of Art,  Columbus Museum,  Crystal Bridges Museum,  Detroit Institute of Arts,  Detroit Public Library,  Freer Gallery of Art,  Gari Melchers,  Gari Melchers; Detroit; Michigan; Detroit Public Library; murals,  Gari Melches Home and Studio,  Greenville County Museum of Art,  Henry Art Gallery,  Indianapolis Museum of Art,  Johnson Museum of Art,  Library of Congress,  Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Michelle Crow-Dolby,  Michigan,  Minneapolis Institute of Arts,  museum collections,  Museum of Art,  Museum of Fine Arts Boston,  National Gallery of Art,  North Carolina Museum of Art,  Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,  Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,  Philadelphia Museum of Art,  Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery,  Smart Museum of Art,  Smithsonian American Art Museum,  St. Louis Art Museum,  Telfair Museums,  The Art Institute of Chicago,  Toledo Museum of Art,  University

Tausendschön and American Pillar blooming on the arbors.

May 20, 2014

Belmont’s Roses

Since my first days at Belmont in 1999, I have combed through our archives looking for clues to what the buildings, gardens, and grounds looked like

Category iconRestored Gardens Tag iconBelmont,  Corinne Melchers,  roses

Nellie Kabel

May 14, 2014

Busy Spring For Melchers Collectors

The art market is currently very lop-sided with prices and number of sales heavily favoring postwar and contemporary art, while the art of Gari

Category iconArt,  Gari Melchers Tag iconBelmont,  Charlton Hall Galleries,  Christies,  Gari Melchers,  Nellie Kabel,  Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers

sundial

March 11, 2014

How to Read Belmont’s Sundial

During my periodic Director’s Tours and when I’m helping out with regular tours, visitors often ask me what that thing is mounted on the outside wall

Category iconHistoric House Tag iconBelmont,  Corinne Melchers,  vertical sundial

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