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January 3, 2024

Animal Lovers

No doubt about it, Gari and Corinne Melchers loved animals. The couple enjoyed dogs as pets and usually had at least one canine companion at all

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July 28, 2023

Spirit of an Artist

While his passing is a real loss to American art, the spirit of his work will always live. Adolph A Weinman, German-born American sculptor Our

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Mrs. Gari Melchers

September 23, 2020

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

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Belmont Studio Interior

June 24, 2020

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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