Maternity, c. 1913

Inscription

lower right: Gari Melchers

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

1914

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

1914

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.

1916

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.

1919

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Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873–1921, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 13 July - 27 August 2002, unpublished checklist.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

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