Collection Vespers

Vespers

Gari Melchers American, 1860-1932
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Vespers
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About the Artwork

Vespers

1888

Gari Melchers

1860-1932

American

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 38 × 28 inches (96.5 × 71.1 cm) Framed: 51 1/2 × 41 3/4 × 5 inches (130.8 × 106 × 12.7 cm)

Paintings

American Art before 1950

Gift of the Witenagemote Club

89.74

Public Domain

Markings

Signed and dated, lower right: Gari Melchers 88

Provenance

1889, Witenagemote Club;
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Magazine of Art (1900): p. 151.

Bulletin of the DMA 4, no. 4 (October 1904): p. 2.

Exhibition of Paintings by Michigan Artists. Exh. cat., DMA. Detroit, 1905, no. 39.

Bulletin of the DMA 10 (April 1906): p. 5.

Handbook of Paintings in the Collection of the Detroit Museum of Art: Supplement. 1907.

Exhibition of Oriental and American Art. Exh. cat., Alumni Memorial Hall, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1910, no. 115 (ill.).

Earle, Helen L. Biographical Sketches of American Artists, 3rd ed. East Lansing, 1916, p. 164.

Exh. cat. Washington, D.C., 1918, no. 1921.

Catalogues of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p. 135, no. 209.

Exhibition of Paintings by Gari Melchers. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1927, p. 3.

Exh. cat. Buffalo, New York, 1930, p. 5.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 88, no. 340.

Michigan Art Yesterday and Today. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1963, no. 14.

Dreiss, Joseph G. Gari Melchers: His Work in the Belmont Collection. Charlottesville, 1984, pp. xvii, 74 (ill.).

Stott, Annette. “Dutch Utopia.” Smithsonian Studies in American Art 17 (Spring 1989): p. 74 (ill.).

Gari Melchers: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts. St. Petersberg, 1990, no. 12.

Peck, William. The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Brief History. Detroit, 1991, p. 39 (ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Gari Melchers, Vespers, 1888, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Witenagemote Club, 89.74.

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