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

Gari MelchersWikidata

painting by Julius Gari Melchers

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Date
c. 1906Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: c. 1906
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
63.5 × 54.3 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 63.5 × 54.3 cm
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

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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.
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