Andrew W. Mellon
1930
Painter, American, 1860 - 1932
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 140.3 x 104.5 cm (55 1/4 x 41 1/8 in.)
framed: 162.6 x 127 x 8.8 cm (64 x 50 x 3 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1953.11.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The sitter, Andrew W. Mellon [1855-1937], Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; gift to his attorney, Donald D. Shepard [1893-1966], Washington, D.C.;[1] gift 1953 to NGA.
[1] Mr. Mellon lent the painting to three exhibitions in the early 1930s, so presumably gave the painting to Mr. Shepard after the exhibition in 1934 and before his death in 1937. Mr. Shepard also owned the oil sketch done for this painting by Melchers, given to him by Mrs. Ailsa Mellon Bruce, who in turn had received it from her father. It measures 23 5/8" x 18" and is signed and dated in the upper left: Gari Melchers. / Washington. 1930 (per notes in NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1932
Loan Exhibition of American Portraits by Contemporary American Artists, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, Inc., 1932, no. 48, repro.
1933
Memorial Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Gari Melchers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1933, no. 52.
1934
A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Gari Melchers, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1934, no. 15.
Bibliography
1933
The Index of Twentieth Century Artists 1 (October 1933): 10.
1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 82, repro.
1979
Reid, Richard S. "Gari Melchers: An American Artist in Virginia." Virginia Cavalcade XXVIII (Spring 1979): 161.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 198, repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 235, repro.
Inscriptions
upper left: Gari Melchers / Washington. 1930
Wikidata ID
Q20192815