Inscription
lower right: Gari Melchers
Provenance
The artist [1860-1932]; purchased 22 January 1911 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
Exhibition History
- 1910
- Third Exhibition: Oil Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 10 December 1910 - 22 January 1911, no. 39.
- 1911
- Exhibition of Pictures by Gari Melchers, Montross Gallery, New York, 1-15 March 1911, no. 8.
- 1918
- Paintings by Gari Melchers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1918, no. 6.
- 1927
- Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers, Detroit Institute of Art, October 1927, no. 16.
- 1930
- Exhibition of a Retrospection Collection of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Gari Melchers, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2 February - 2 March 1930, no. 8.
- 1934
- Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers, Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, 2 March - 1 April 1934, no. 17.
- 1950
- Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Virginia, 15 June - November 1950, no catalogue.
- 1963
- A Century and a Half of American Painting: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dulin Gallery of Art, Knoxville, 3 April - 13 May 1963, no. 23.
- 1970
- Long-term loan to the Chevy Chase Club, Maryland, 1970-1978.
- 1984
- The American Figure: Vanderlyn to Bellows, Mansfield Art Center, Ohio, 11 March - 8 April 1984, no. 30.
- 1987
- Artists of Michigan in the Nineteenth Century: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition Commemorating Michigan Statehood 1837-1987, Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan; Detroit Historical Museum, 1987.
- 1990
- Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Inc., Savannah; National Academy of Design, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1990-1991, no. 42, repro.
- 2002
- Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 27 August 2002, unpublished checklist.
- 2003
- The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
- 2013
- American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
- 1910
- Mechlin, Leila. "Standard Kept Up: Third Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery [exh. review]." Evening Star (10 December 1910): 6.
- 1998
- Simmons, Linda, et al. The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998. Exh. cat. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1998: 110.
- 2011
- Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 308, repro.
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