Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of James DeeringCC0 (public domain) · 6,761 × 7,897 px · Art Institute of Chicago · IIIF
c. 1906 · Art Institute of Chicago
Mother and Child
painting by Julius Gari Melchers
In the picture
- Date
- c. 1906WikidataArt Institute of Chicago: c. 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvasArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 63.5 × 54.3 cmArt Institute of ChicagoWikidata: 63.5 × 54.3 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoWikidata
- Gallery
- Gallery 273Art Institute of Chicago
- Materials
- oil paint, canvasWikidata
- Inventory no.
- 1925.704Wikidata
- Credit line
- Gift of James DeeringArt Institute of Chicago
Provenance
Where it has been
- Dates unknownArt Institute of Chicagomedium confidenceWikidata · collection
Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago
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.
Identifiers & sources+
- Art Institute of Chicago86780
- Wikimedia CommonsGari Melchers - Mother & Child.jpg
- inventory number1925.704
- WikidataQ20267435
- Fame rank#29826 (0 Wikipedia articles)


