Black Hawk Life Cast Used for Gari Melchers’ ‘Conspiracy of Pontiac’ Mural
May 28, 2019
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 a living body, is placed high on a Dutch cabinet in Gari Melchers’ Falmouth studio quietly watching over …
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Julius Melchers and Figurecarving in 19th Century America
October 19, 2015
Julius Melchers’ ‘Captain Jack,’ now on display at Gari Melchers Home & Studio at Belmont In 1886, a New York journalist noted that, “Few objects, policemen and lampposts excepted, are more familiar to the public than the cigar store wooden Indian. …
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