Jerome Myers

Jerome Myers (March 20, 1867 – June 19, 1940) was an American artist and writer allied with the Ashcan School, particularly known for his pleased depictions of the urban landscape and its people. He was one of the main organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernism to America.

Born in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult activity in New York City. Myers worked briefly as an actor and scene painter. He later studied art for a year at Cooper Union followed by psychotherapy at the Art Students League more than a grow old of eight years where his main learned was George de Forest Brush. In 1896 he went to Paris, but isolated stayed a few months, believing that his main classroom was the streets of New York's Lower East Side. His mighty interest and feelings for the new immigrants resulted in exceeding a thousand drawings, as capably as paintings, etchings and watercolors that depicted their lives uncovered of the tenements which were their first homes in America.

In a 1923 magazine article he explained why cities were his greatest source of inspiration: