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...modesty last week. Other artists who have won the same prize at the Carnegie show have not always appreciated the honor. Malcolm Parcell, popular prizeman in 1924 & 1925, refused to let his canvas go on tour, hid it in his studio. Leopold Seyffert repainted his 1926 prizewinner. The late Gari Melchers sent his 1927 check to the Manhattan Society for Indigent Artists...
...artists have been so honored in their lifetime. Born in Detroit in 1860, Gari Melchers was sent abroad at 17 to study painting-at Düsseldorf because his cautious parents considered Paris no place for a young man from Detroit. At 29 he won the grand medal of honor in the Paris Salon, an honor only two other U. S. artists have won (John Singer Sargent and James Abbott McNeill Whistler...
...find him. His shirtfront became a flower bed for ribbons-officer of the Legion of Honor, knight of the Order of St. Michael of Bavaria, officer of the Order of the Red Eagle (Prussia), officer of the Grand Ducal Order of the White Falcon of Sacony. In 1914 Gari Melchers prudently removed himself to the land of his birth. His pictures hang in 21 public museums. For the past two years he has been president of the august Century Association...
...honest modernists admired and respected Gari Melchers. He was an Academician, but an Academician who continued to grow. His style, from the polished realism of his early Paris canvases through the brightly colored Dutch peasant scenes of the 1900's to the solid portraits of his later work, was never fixed. At the age of 71 he produced a nude study, "Virginia Beach," which the Whitney Museum hung last month with its biennial exhibition of young modernists...
...years Artist Leon Gordon has had the studio next to Gari Melchers' in New York. He wrote...