Wall Art Print Entitled Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940). The Market WOM by Celestial Images | 8 x 24
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Wall Art Print entitled Jerome Myers 1867-1940 THE END OF THE STREET by Celestial Images | 10 x 8
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Jerome Myers The Childrens Theater Detroit Institute of The Arts 1925~30" x 25" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction
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Jerome Myers The Childrens Theater Detroit Institute of the Arts 1925 ~ 30" x 25" Fine Art Giclee Canvas Print (Unframed) Reproduction
Poster Print entitled 'Jerome Myers (American, 1867-1940). The Old House,'. Multiple sizes available. Primary colors within this image include: beautiful tones sure to enhance your space. Made in the USA. Satisfaction guaranteed. Inks used are latex-based and designed to last. Printed on high quality gloss finish paper with archival quality inks. Looks great in dorm rooms, kid rooms, offices, and more.
Jerome Myers was born on March 20, 1867, at Petersburg, Virginia, one of five children (four boys and a girl) of Jewish parents, Abram Myers and Julia Hillman. His paternal grandfather, born in Paris of Dutch extraction, had served as a professional soldier under Napoleon. He later went to England, where Jerome's father was born, then came to the United States, where he fought in the War of 1812 and settled in Richmond, Virginia.
Abram Myers, who seemingly inherited his father's adventurous bent, joined the California Gold Rush and later traveled in many lands. He dropped in on his family occasionally, but his wife and children accepted his long absences and their financial difficulties with philosophic cheerfulness.
The family moved north when Jerome was a child, eventually settling in Philadelphia in 1876. The Centennial Exposition was in full swing, and it was here that the boy first became interested in art.
Education
Myers left public school at eleven to go to work.
Career
Of the various jobs Myers held, the most rewarding was in a lawyer's office where he could spend long hours poring over Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and Lemprière's Classical Dictionary - the foundation, by his own account, of all his later reading. In Baltimore, to which his family moved when he was fourteen, he worked near the Baltimore School of Fine Arts, where in his spare time he posed for students. Already showing some artistic facility, he was set up in business as a sign painter by his oldest brother.
In 1886 the family moved to New York City, where Myers studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students' League and made a living painting signs and stage sets. His earliest known work is a sketch in oils, painted about 1887, showing a city back yard.
In 1896, having saved $250, he went to Paris, but he found foreign study of little value and returned to New York in a few weeks. Myers found color and beauty and endless variety in the crowded city streets, especially on the lower East Side and in the old Greenwich Village.
Returning to his West 14th Street studio, he painted the everyday life of the common people - housewives marketing at pushcarts or gossiping together, street circuses and merry-go-rounds, fish markets, old clothes men, religious festivals, and shrines brightly lighted by children holding candles.
In 1900 an artist friend introduced Myers to the art dealer William Macbeth, who bought two of his paintings and sold others to his patrons, and with this support he was soon able to devote all his time to painting. In 1908 he had his first one-man exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery. During these years Myers became allied with the New York realists - such men as Robert Henri, William Glackens, George Bellows, John Sloan, and Guy Pène du Bois. Though these artists painted in a variety of styles, they united in rejecting academicism; in technique and in choice of subject matter they did much to free American art from nineteenth-century Victorian prettiness. At the same time they carried forward the American tradition of naturalism, as opposed to such artists as John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, Max Weber, and others, who abandoned realism for post-impressionism, cubism, fauvism, and abstractionism.
Both groups were represented in the famous "Armory Show, " organized in New York City in 1913 by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, though they were somewhat overshadowed by the more spectacular European work that was included. Myers was one of those who prepared the original plan for the show, which was to have been a cross-section of current American art. In his own work, Myers was more concerned with his subjects than with surface facility. Yet, after an earlier dark impressionist manner, he developed from post-impressionism a gay and sparkling painting method which is at the same time decorative and sincere.
Myers lived to celebrate the publication of his autobiography, Artist in Manhattan, on his seventy-third birthday. He died three months later on June 19, 1940, of heart failure in his studio apartment in New York City and was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.
Quotations:
"All my life I had lived, worked and played in the poorest streets of American cities. I knew them and their population and was one of them. Others saw ugliness and degradation there, I saw poetry and beauty, so I came back to them. I took a sporting chance of saying something out of my own experience and risking whether it was worthwhile or not. That is all any artist can do. "
Membership
Jerome Myers was a member of the Academy as well as of the American Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Gravers.
Personality
Jerome Myers was an affable man, whose bushy head of hair and mustache made him resemble Mark Twain or Paderewski.
Connections
On October 25, 1905, Jerome Myers married Ethel Klinck of Brooklyn, also an artist. The couple had a daughter, Virginia.