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Mother and Child
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
More by Julius Gari Melchers in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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