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Jerome Myers Painter American (Petersburg, Virginia, 1867 - 1940, New York) View objects by this artist.

Born in Petersburg, Virginia in 1867, Myers lived in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and New Orleans before he established residence in New York City in 1886.  Within a year, he had enrolled in his first formal art courses at Cooper Union and, shortly thereafter, the Art Students League, where he studied with George de Forest Brush and Kenyon Cox.  ...the young artist questioned the highly structured, conservative nature of the institutions.  According to Myers, his instructors frowned upon his interest in city life.
Travels to Europe in 1896 and 1914 reaffirmed the artist's conviction that only the city life of New York could furnish the material for his life's work.  [the artist] always preferred the immigrant life of New York City. ... "Others saw ugliness and degradation there," he wrote, "I saw poetry and beauty."
Source: Grant Holcomb III, Kraushaar Galleries, 1994

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