Details
Gari Melchers (1860-1932)
The Young Mother
signed 'Gari Melchers.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 ¾ x 21 ¼ in. (62.9 x 54 cm.)
Painted by 1907.
Provenance
Charles Deering, by 1907.
Mrs. Barbara Deering Danielson, Groton, Massachusetts, daughter of the above, 1938.
Estate of the above.
Christie's, New York, 9 December 1983, lot 113.
James Graham & Sons, Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
C.H. Caffin, The Story of American Painting: The Evolution of Painting in America from Colonial Times to the Present, New York, 1907, p. 353, illustrated (as Mother and Child).
G. Edgerton, “Is America Selling Her Birthright in Art for a Mess of Pottage? Significance of This Year’s Exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy,” The Craftsman, vol. 11, no. 6, March 1907, n.p., frontispiece illustration.
Carnegie Institute, 11th Annual Exhibition of Paintings, exhibition checklist, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1907, no. 313.
C. Lewis Hind, “Gari Melchers: A Great American Painter who has Received More Recognition Abroad Than at Home,” The World’s Work, vol. 15, November 1907-April 1908, p. 10051, illustrated.
Cottier & Co, Gari Melchers, exhibition checklist, New York, 1908, no. 9.
A. Hoeber, “Art and Artists: Work by Gari Melchers at the Cottier Gallery,” Globe, New York, January 29, 1908.
J. Nutting, “Melchers’s Pictures at St. Botolph Club,” Advertiser, Boston, Massachusetts, March 7, 1908.
"Mr. Melchers' Show at the St. Botolph,” New York Herald, March 22, 1908.
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gari Melchers: A Memorial Exhibition of His Work, Commemorating His Services to Virginia and the Second Anniversary of the Museum He Helped to Establish, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, Virginia, 1938, p. 29, no. 80.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, One Hundred and Second Annual Exhibition, January 21-February 24, 1907, no. 295.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, 11th Annual Exhibition of Paintings, April 11-June 13, 1907, no. 313.
New York, Cottier & Co, Gari Melchers, January 28-February 21, 1908, no. 9.
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Paintings by Gari Melchers, March 8-26, 1908.
Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gari Melchers: A Memorial Exhibition of His Work, Commemorating His Services to Virginia and the Second Anniversary of the Museum He Helped to Establish, January 17-February 28, 1938, no. 80.
St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Art Museum, Impressionism Reflected: American Art, 1890-1920, May 7-June 27, 1982.
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