Jerome Myers

American, 1867 - 1940

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Almost two dozen men, women, and children stand in a street market in this horizontal painting. The people all appear to have pale skin, though a few of the women’s faces are tinged with green. The men are bearded and wear coats and the women long skirts or dresses in shades of rust brown, sage green, slate blue, and brick red. Baskets holding green goods along the foreground closest to us are loosely painted so details are indistinct. A screen of two- and three-story buildings on the far side of a town square are painted with golden yellow and honey orange. The outlines of skyscrapers beyond are hazy against a cloud-streaked, blue sky. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right corner, “JEROME MYERS 1931.”
Jerome Myers, Life on the East Side, 1931, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2015.19.55

Life on the East Side

Jerome Myers · 1931 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.55

Jerome Myers, Greenwich Village, Street Scene, c. 1925, soft-ground etching in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.50

Greenwich Village, Street Scene

Jerome Myers · c. 1925 · soft-ground etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.50

Jerome Myers, Mott St., NY, c. 1925, soft-ground etching in black on wove paper, Gift of Jacob Kainen, 2002.98.167

Mott St., NY

Jerome Myers · c. 1925 · soft-ground etching in black on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2002.98.167

Jerome Myers, Self-Portrait, 1922, red, black, and white chalk on laid paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1979.41.9

Self-Portrait

Jerome Myers · 1922 · red, black, and white chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.41.9

Jerome Myers, Street Scene (New York), 1922, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3680

Street Scene (New York)

Jerome Myers · 1922 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3680

Jerome Myers, Springtime, c. 1919, drypoint, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.5164.5

Springtime

Jerome Myers · c. 1919 · drypoint ·  Accession ID  2008.115.5164.5

Jerome Myers, New York Street Scene, 1911, black chalk on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum exchange through a gift of Rear Adm. E.H.C. Leutze), 2015.19.980

New York Street Scene

Jerome Myers · 1911 · black chalk on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.980

Jerome Myers, East Side Junk Shop, c. 1910, etching, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3678

East Side Junk Shop

Jerome Myers · c. 1910 · etching ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3678

Jerome Myers, Self-Portrait, 1906, charcoal heightened with white on light brown laid paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1979.20.91

Self-Portrait

Jerome Myers · 1906 · charcoal heightened with white on light brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.20.91

Jerome Myers, Self-Portrait, 1896, charcoal on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Mrs. J.L.M. Curry), 2015.19.2771

Self-Portrait

Jerome Myers · 1896 · charcoal on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.2771

Bibliography

1940

  • Myers, Jerome. Artist in Manhattan. New York, 1940.

1977

  • Holcomb, Grant. "The Forgotten Legacy of Jerome Myers, (1867-1940): Painter of New York's Lower East Side." American Art Journal 9, no. 1 (May 1977): 78-91.

2017

  • Gambone, Robert L. Jerome Myers: The Ash Can Artist of the Lower East Side. St. Peter, MN, 2017.