THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO I SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS FOR APRIL

PAINTINGS BY GARI MELCHERS

APRIL FOUR TO MAY ONE, 1919 ARI ]. MELCHERS, 80 West 40th Street, New York. Born in , , August 11, G1860. Pupil of Dusseldorf Academy, 1877-80; Lefebvre and Boulanger in Paris. Member of the Asso- ciate National Academy of Design; National Academy of Design; Paris Society of American Painters; National Society of Fine Arts, Paris; International Society of Artists, London; Munich Secession; Berlin Royal Acad- emy; National Institute of Arts and Letters. Awards: Honorable mention, Paris Salon; first class medal, Amsterdam; third class medal, Paris Salon; first class medal, Munich; grand prize,. Paris Exposition; first prize, The Art Institute of Chicago; medal of honor, Berlin; gold medal, Philadelphia Art Club ; medal of honor, Antwerp; , The Pennsyl- vania Academy of the Fine Arts'; first class medal, Vienna; gold medal, Pan-American Exposition, Buf- falo; gold medal, Universal Exposition, St. Louis; second W. A. Clark prize, The ; Knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria; Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France, officer 1904; officer R. Prussian Order of Red Eagle, 1907. Represented in the Luxembourg Museum, Paris; The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Carnegie Institute; The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; National Gallery ; Detroit Museum of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago ; Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts; City Art Museum, St. Louis; School of Design, Providence. CATALOGUE PHLOX 2 BREAKFAST 3 THE SMITHY 4 NELLIE KABEL 5 JULY FLOWERS 6 OLD VIRGINIA 7 SUMMER COTTAGE 8 CHILD WITH ORANGE 9 NELSON BERRY'S STORE 10 YOUNG WOMAN AT HER TOILET 11 MARRIAGE Lent by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts 12 MY GARDEN Lent by Mr. Edward A . Faust 13 THE LETTER Lent by Mrs. Edward Chandler W alker 14 THE SERMON Lent by Mr. Honore Palmer 15 MATERNITY Lent by the C orcoran Gallery of Art 16 THE SKATERS Lent by The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts 17 THE WEDDING Lent by Detroit Museum of Art 18 THE FENCING MASTER Lent by Detroit Museum of A rt 19 MOTHER AND CHILD Lent by Mr. James Deering 20 THE MORNING ROOM Lent by Dr. George Woodward 21 DRUMMER, FIRST ROYAL SCOTS Lent by Toronto Art Museum 22 THE SUPPER AT EMMAUS Lent by John Herron Art Institute

23 CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON Lent by Mr. Charles L. Hutchinson 24 DR. WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER Lent by The University of Chicago 25 THE UNPRETENTIOUS GARDEN Lent by Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences 26 SAILOR AND HIS SWEETHEART Lent by Mr. Charles L. Freer 27 COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT Lent by the Smithsonian Institution (Freer Collection) 28 PORTRAIT OF MRS. FREDERICK ALGER Lent by the Smithsonian Institution ยท (Freer Collection)