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Gari Melchers

The Letter, 1882

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 94.62 × 66.99 cm (37 1/4 × 26 3/8 in.)

framed: 124.46 × 97.79 × 8.89 cm (49 × 38 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Edward C. and Mary Walker Collection)

Accession Number

2016.23.5

Artists / Makers

Gari Melchers (painter) American, 1860 - 1932

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Inscription

lower right: GARI J. MELCHERS. / PARIS. 1882

Provenance

Edward C. [d. 1915] and Mary Emma Griffin [1855-1937] Walker, Willistead Manor, Walkerville, Ontario, and Washington, by 1905;[1] bequest 4 May 1937 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2016 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting was lent by the Walkers to the Exhibition of Paintings, Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Esq., Detroit Museum of Art, April 1905.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Walker, Edward C. and Mary Emma Griffin

Exhibition History

1882: Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris, 1882, no. 1830.

1882: Salon Triennal d'Anvers, Antwerp, 13 August - early October 1882.

1883: 58th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 2 April - 12 May 1882.

1883: Detroit Art Loan Exhibition, September 1883.

1905: Exhibition of Paintings, Lent from the Private Collection of E. Chandler Walker, Esq., Detroit Museum of Art, April 1905, no. 9.

1918: Paintings by Gari Melchers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 2 February - 3 March 1918, no. 2.

1919: Paintings by Gari Melcher, Art Institute of Chicago, 4 April - 1 May 1919.

1923: Paintings by Gari Melchers, Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 April - 5 May 1923, no. 7.

1930: Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers, Dayton Art Institute, 15 April - 15 May 1930.

1930: Paintings by Gari Melchers, N. A., Thomas J. Mitchell, and Thirty Cleveland Artists, Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, University of Rochester, March-April 1930, no. 15, repro.

1930: Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Gari Melchers, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2 February - 2 March 1930, no. 31, repro.

1933: Memorial Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Gari Melchers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 October - 3 December 1933, no. 27.

1938: Gari Melchers: A Memorial Exhibition of his Work, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 17 January - 28 February 1938, no. 50, repro.

1976: American Expatriate Painters of the Late-Nineteenth Century, Dayton Art Institute; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 4 December 1976 - 29 May 1977.

1982: The Hague School and Its American Legacy, Federal Reserve Board, Washington; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, 19 April - August 1982.

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, Richmond, 11 March 1990 - 2 June 1991, no. 6, pl. 1 (shown only in Richmond).

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: 41.

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