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Artist Gari Melchers (American, 1860-1932)

Date1910-1911

DimensionsFrame: 67 1/4 × 71 3/8 × 5 in. (170.8 × 181.3 × 12.7 cm)
Canvas: 52 × 56 in. (132.1 × 142.2 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1923.21

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 23A, New Media

Published ReferencesGari Melchers, 1860-1932, American Painter, Graham Galleries, New York, 1978, in no. 3.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 82, pl. 121.

Godwin, Blake-More, "A Gari Melchers Installed," The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 45, Dec. 1923, repr. cover.

Reid, Richard S., "Gari Melchers: an American Artist in Virginia," Virginia Cavalcade, vol. 28, no. 4, Spr. 1979, repr. p. 162.

Lesko, Diane, Gari Melchers: a Retrospective Exhibition, St. Petersburg, FL, 1990, p. 64, fig. 12.

Stott, Annette, Holland Mania: the Unknown Dutch Period in American Art & Culture, Woodstock, NY, 1998, pp. 115, 202-203, fig. 115 (det.).

Smith, Jeanette, MD, "Cover", JAMA, vol. 309, no. 12, March 27, 2013, repr. (col.) p. 1205.

Exhibition HistoryChicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 35th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpure, 1922, repr.

St. Louis, City Art Museum of St. Louis, 17th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, 1922, repr.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 117th Annual, 1922, repr.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 21st Annual Exhibition, 1922, repr.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Paintings by Gari Melchers, 1927, no. 7, repr.

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings Representative of the Life Works of Gari Melchers, N.A., 1930, no. 30, repr.

Dayton, Dayton Art Institute, 1930.

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gari Melchers, A Memorial Exhibition of His Work, 1938, no. 16, repr.

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Centemporary American Oil Paintings Acquired by the Toledo Museum 1901-1951, 1951.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, September 12, 2004 - January 2, 2005.

Savannah, Telfair Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Taft Museum of Art; Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Art Museum; The Netherlands, Singer Laren Museum, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914, 2009-2011, no. 45, pp. xviii, 52, 170, repr. (col.) p. 171.