Maternity

c. 1913

Gari Melchers

Painter, American, 1860 - 1932

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1919 from the artist by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1914

  • 109th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 8 February - 29 March 1914, no. 323, repro.

  • Fifth Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 15 December 1914 - 24 January 1915, no. 75. repro.

1915

  • Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, no. 3684, repro.

1916

  • Inaugural Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, 6 June - 20 September 1916, no. 73.

  • Possibly Montross Gallery, New York, 1916.

1918

  • Paintings by Gari Melchers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1918, no. 5.

1919

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers, Copley Society, Boston, 1919, no. 3.

  • Paintings by Gari Melchers, Art Institute of Chicago, 4 April - 1 May 1919, no. 15.

1929

  • Paintings & Drawings by Gari Melchers, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1-26 January 1929, no. 9.

1938

  • Gari Melchers: A Memorial Exhibition of His Work, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 17 January - 28 February 1938, no. 30, repro.

1963

  • American Traditionalists of the 20th Century, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Georgia, 16 February - 15 March 1963, no. 100, repro.

1998

  • The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907–1998, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 17 July - 29 September 1998, unnumbered catalogue.

2002

  • Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 27 August 2002, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

1973

  • Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 43, repro.

2011

  • Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 308, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Gari Melchers

Wikidata ID

Q46633284


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