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Artist:
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Gari Melchers
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Title:
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The Arts of Peace
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Date:
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1893
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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15 1/8 x 29 x 1 in. (38.42 x 73.66 x 2.54 cm) (canvas)
22 x 36 1/4 x 1 in. (55.88 x 92.08 x 2.54 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Lucile and Stanley Slocum
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Location:
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Gallery 302
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The Arts of Peace is a study for one of two murals originally painted for the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building at the Chicago World's Fair in 1892-93. Following the Fair, both The Arts of Peace and The Arts of War were given to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where both murals hang in the main reading room of the library.
Original documents from the Chicago Worldâs Fair summarize The Arts of Peace mural: "Every figure seems bent on acquiring knowledge. Even the mother takes time from the care of her babe and becomes an interested listener to words of wisdom. The student, the philosopher, the sage, the maiden and the youth are all represented as worshipers at the shrine of knowledge."
Julius Garibaldi Melchers, known as Gari, was born in Detroit, Michigan just five years after his family emigrated from Germany.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Melchers, Gari
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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American, 1860 - 1932
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature LR: [THE ARTS OF PEACE. GARI MELCHERS XCIII]
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Genre. Allegory. Figure. Study for a mural originally executed for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, now in the library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Accession #:
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79.22
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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