{"id":155298,"date":"2020-09-29T09:46:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155298"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:13:16","slug":"study-for-iconic-melchers-on-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2020\/09\/29\/study-for-iconic-melchers-on-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Study for Iconic Melchers on View"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><div id=\"attachment_155299\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155299\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155299\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the Dunes by Gari Melchers\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-757x1024.jpg 757w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-768x1039.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-1136x1536.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-1514x2048.jpg 1514w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/In-the-Dunes-without-fram-scaled.jpg 1893w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-155299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the Dunes by Gari Melchers<\/p><\/div><p>A painting entitled <em>In the Dunes<\/em> is on display at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garimelchers.org\/\">Gari Melchers Home and Studio<\/a>, Belmont, as a companion to Melchers&rsquo; monumental <em>In Holland<\/em> through January 3, 2021, thanks to a generous loan by the Sue C. Lang Family Trust.<\/p><p>In 1887, Gari Melchers began experimenting with the concept of rustic figures meeting on the dunes of Holland. The survival of several sketches in Belmont&rsquo;s archives indicates that Melchers produced numerous iterations for what would become his iconic painting <em>In Holland<\/em>. <em>In the Dunes<\/em> is just such an example, an almost exact replica of <em>In Holland<\/em> though on a far smaller scale. <em>In the Dunes<\/em> was unknown to experts until it resurfaced in a private auction in Hamburg, Germany, in 2018 and sold to a local Fredericksburg collector. Because of its cursory application of paint it presumably started life as a small-scale study for <em>In Holland<\/em>, but the artist probably returned to it later, giving it enough finish to stand on its own as an easel painting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A painting entitled In the Dunes is on display at Gari Melchers Home and Studio, Belmont, as a companion to Melchers&rsquo; monumental In Holland through January 3, 2021, thanks to a generous loan by the Sue C. Lang Family Trust.In 1887, Gari Melchers began experimenting with the concept of rustic figures meeting on the dunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5571,"featured_media":155299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[432,6691],"class_list":["post-155298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-whats-new-umw","tag-gari-melchers-home-and-studio","tag-mdolby","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}