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The Artist’s Shop Part One: Pencils, Paints, Charcoal and Crayons

on 03 Dec 2011

One reason Gari Melchers Home and Studio is such a valuable educational asset, is its archives.  It is an archives not only of letters and receipts, photographs and newspapers, it is also a repository of Gari Melchers’ tools.  The palettes on which he mixed his paints are here with tubes and tubes of paints. Watercolor pans and stoppered [...]

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Fabriano and Sennelier

on 14 Oct 2011

  Gari Melchers in his Paris studio, ca. 1889. photo courtesy Gari Melchers Home & Studio Recently, the Melchers Museum Shop introduced two lines of art supplies that while new to the shop, are not new to Belmont.  These exceptional products were available to Gari Melchers and most likely were part of his artist’s kit.  [...]

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