14 Facts About Jerome Myers

Jerome Myers was an American artist and writer associated with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his sympathetic depictions of the urban landscape and its people.

Jerome Myers was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.

Jerome Myers then studied art for a year at Cooper Union followed by study at the Art Students League over a period of eight years where his main teacher was George de Forest Brush.

Similarly, around 1893, after sketching a canal boat during a day trip along the Morris and Essex Canal, Jerome Myers made his first sale to the woman who lived on the boat.

In 1895, Jerome Myers found work in the art department of the New York Tribune.

In March and April 1903, when the Colonial Club of New York held its annual art show, Exhibition of Paintings Mainly by New Men, among the twenty artists included were Robert Henri, John French Sloan, and Jerome Myers, showing their works together for the first time.

Jerome Myers won the Altman Prize for Street Shrine in 1931 and again in 1937 for City Playground.

Jerome Myers was awarded the National Academy's Carnegie Prize in 1936 and the Isidor Medal in 1938.

The painting by Mr Jerome Myers is of a group of women standing talking in a somber street, with children playing about them.

Mr Jerome Myers considers it typical of his work, and says it is the sort of scene he most enjoys to paint.

Twenty two years earlier, in 1912, the Metropolitan had made its first purchase of a Jerome Myers painting, The Mission Tent.

Jerome Myers has discovered these subjects for himself and treats them in his own way.

Jerome Myers died in his Carnegie studio on June 19,1940, after a series of illnesses complicated by an injury sustained from a fall.

Jerome Myers lectured on his work throughout the United States, under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts from 1941 to 1943 and maintained the Jerome Myers Memorial Gallery in New York City for a number of years.