New York Hippodrome

Gari Melchers

ca. 1906–1907

Oil on canvas

New York Historical

An impressionistic cityscape depicts the Hippodrome building with flags flying from a tower. Bare trees and a grassy area with two figures are in the foreground. An impressionistic cityscape depicts the Hippodrome building with flags flying from a tower. Bare trees and a grassy area with two figures are in the foreground. Gari Melchers was heavilly influenced by his father,the sculptor Julius Theodore Melchers. The elder Melchers was a sculptor, apprenticed as a child to a local Prussian wood carver but then trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After a stop in London to work at the Crystal Palace, the site of the 1851 world’s fair, Julius Melchers immigrated to the United States, finally settling in Detroit. In 1877, Julius Melchers sent his son to the art academy in Dusseldorf, Ger