The Wedding

ca. 1900

Gari Melchers American, 1860-1932

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About the Artwork

Title The Wedding

Artwork Date ca. 1900

Artist Gari Melchers

Life Dates 1860-1932

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 45 × 34 inches (114.3 × 86.4 cm) Framed: 63 1/4 × 52 1/8 × 6 1/4 inches (160.7 × 132.4 × 15.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Edward Chandler Walker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 06.4

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Signed Signed, lower left center: Gari Melchers

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Gari Melchers;
by 1906, Edward Chandler Walker;
1906-present, gift to the Detroit Museum of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

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

Bulletin of the DMA 1, no. 10 (April 1906): p. 5.

Hoeber, Arthur. “Gari Melchers.” International Studio 31, 121-124 (1907): p. 18 (ill.).

Supplement to the Handbook of Paintings Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1907, p. 18. [catalogue also titled Handbook of the Paintings, Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum]

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

Bulletin of the DMA 7, no. 2 (April 1913): p. 31.

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

Paintings by Gari Melchers. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1918, no. 21.

Academic Notes. Buffalo, 1923, p. 30.

Valentiner, William R., Clyde H. Burroughs. A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. 1927, p. 80.

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

Lewis-Hind, Henriette. Gari Melchers, Painter. New York, 1928 (pl. 36).

Exhibition of a Retrospective Collection of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Gari Melchers, N.A. Exh. cat., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. Buffalo, New York, 1930, p. 5.

American Painting. Exh. cat., University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 1940, no. 33.

Victoriana: An Exhibition of the Arts of the Victorian Era in America. Exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, 1960, p. 193, no. 200 (ill.).

Brunk, Thomas W. “A Note on Charles Lang Freer.” Bulletin of the DIA 59, 1 (Spring 1981): pp. 19-20 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (1981): pp. 17-21 (ill.).

Dreiss, Joseph G. Gari Melchers: His Work in the Belmont Collection. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1984, pp. 17, 73 (ill.).

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

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