Awaiting Their Return / Waiting

Item

Creator

Julius Gari Melchers (1860-1932)

Title

Awaiting Their Return / Waiting

Date

[Melchers estate date (as of 1992): 1885/86]

Description

Awaiting Their Return / Waiting
Oil on canvas
28 x 38 in. (c. 71 x 96.5 cm.)
Signed ‘J. Gari Melchers’ (lower right)

Provenance

Julius Gari Melchers (1860-1932), possibly sold by 1885-1886 to; Joseph M. Lichtenauer (1845-1912), New York, (sale, New York, American Art Association, 27-28 February 1913, lot 153, sold to); Harrison Williams (1873-1953), New York, (sale, New York, American Art Association, 5 March 1915, lot 63, sold to); [C.V. Seward, possible buyer for Arlington Galleries, New York (sale, New York, The Anderson Galleries, 11-12 November 1926, lot 200, sold to)]; Mr. A. Du Vannes. [Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1927, sold to]; Charles Towson Davies (1872-1950), Reading & Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, by inheritance to; Eva Fisher Davies (d. 1964), by inheritance to; Donald T. Davies, sold April 1965 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, sold February 1966, to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.

Auction Catalogues

1913 – Sale, New York, American Art Association, Collection of the Late J.M. Lichtenauer, Esq. of New York, 27-28 February 1913, lot: 153: No. 153: Gari Melchers, N.A., American, Contemporary. Waiting. Height: 27 ¾ inches; length: 37 ½ inches [provides description of the painting]. Met copy, handwritten annotations: ‘725’ ‘Harrison Williams’.

1915 – Sale, New York, American Art Association, Valuable Modern Paintings Belonging to Several Estates and to Private Owners to be Sold at Unrestricted Public Sale, 5 March 1915
Paintings by Masters of the Barbizon, French, Contemporary and American Schools,
5 March 1915, lot 63: No. 63: Gari Melchers, N.A., American: 1860-. Waiting. Height, 27 ¾ inches; length, 37 ½ inches [provides description of the painting]. Signed at lower right, I. Gari Melchers, 1885. Collection of J.M. Lichtenauer, Esq., New York, 1913. By order of Frederick P. Delafield Esq., Attorney for Owner. Annotated with price “475” and buyer ‘C.V. Seward’ and ‘Arlington Art Galleries’”.

1926 – Sale, New York, The Anderson Galleries, Paintings of the American & European Schools Being the Stock of the Arlington Art Gallery, … Mr. Charles E. Heney Proprietor Who is Retiring from Business, To Be Sold by Auction by Direction of Mrs. Charles E. Heney, 11-12 November 1926, lot 200: No. 200, Gari Melchers, N.A., Contemporary American. Waiting. Canvas. Signed at lower right centre. Height, 28 inches; width 38 inches [illus.; provides description of the painting]. Annotated with name and price ‘Mr. A. Du Vannes’ ‘200’.

Exhibitions

1886 ¬– New York, National Academy of Design, 61st Annual Exhibition, 5 April-15 May 1886, The Corridor, p. 27, no 44. Source: National Academy Notes including the Complete Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, National Academy of Design, No. 6 (1886).

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, pp. 74, 79, illus.

References

Author unknown. "The Academy Exhibition." Art Amateur. Vol. 14, no. 6, (May 1886): pp.119-20: "…a little [like] the late George Fuller's method and color, shows a sailor's or fisherman's wife seated in the sand near a group of red-painted wooden cottages."

Kurtz, Charles M. National Academy Notes and Complete Catalogue. Sixty-first Spring Exhibition. National Academy of Design, New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886, p.86, no. 44.

“Notes on Art Topics.” The Bazaar, Exchange and Mart, and Journal of the Household. Vol. XLVIII. London (2 January-30 June 1893): 377-8.

American Federation of Arts. American Art Annual. Vol. 11. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1914: p. 447.

Author unknown. “Daubigny Painting is Sold for $7100: ‘Landscape: The River Thames’….” New York Times (6 March 1915): p. 11.

American Federation of Arts. American Art Annual. Vol. 12. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1915: p. 289.

Frick Photo Archive, Frick Art Reference Library, New York
Melchers, Waiting
Source: Arlington Art Gallery Collection Sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1926 Nov. 11-12 (200) (DuVannes, $200)

Status

Under Research