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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Mother and Child
    Julius Gari Melchers. Mother and Child, c. 1906. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00001328

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    Mother and Child

    by Julius Gari Melchers

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, top-left, on background, in dark paint: "G. Melchers".

    Exhibition history

    Paris, Annual Salon, 1906. Art Institute of Chicago, Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Oct. 16–Nov. 29, 1906, no. 218. San Francisco, Department of Fine Arts, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915, no. 2564. Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Paintings by Gari Melchers, Feb. 2–Mar. 3, 1918, no. 18. New York, Montross Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Gari Melchers, Figures and Landscapes, Jan. 10–31, 1920, no. 5. Detroit Institute of Arts, Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers, Oct. 1927, no. 10. (ill.) Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Retrospective Collection of Paintings Representing the Life Work of Gari Melchers, no. 7. (ill.) Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Paintings by Gari Melchers, Thomas J. Mitchell, and Thurty Cleveland Artists, Mar. 13–Apr. 20, 1930, no. 4; Dayton Art Institute, Apr. 25–May 24, 1930. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 468. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Gari Melchers, Jan. 11–Feb. 18, 1934, no. 14. (ill.) Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, no. 401. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Jan. 17–Feb. 28, 1938, no. 59. (ill.) Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 192. Milwaukee Art Institute, The Story of Medicine in Art, Sept. 11–Oct. 25, 1953, no. 195. Madison Art Center, Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute, Mar. 1956. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Fredericksburg, Virginia, Belmont, the Gari Melchers Memorial Gallery, Gari Melchers Spotlight Exhibition, Mar. 1–Dec. 15, 2008, no cat.

    Publications

    Homer Saint-Gaudens, ed., Survey of American Painting, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940), n.p., cat. 192.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Julius Gari Melchers (American, 1860–1932)
    Date
    c. 1906
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    63.5 × 54.3 cm (25 × 21 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Realism
    Place
    Netherlands
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Gift of James Deering
    Accession no.
    1925.704

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