Children Playing
Jerome Myers
American Art
Myers was particularly known for his paintings of children at play in the parks, playgrounds, and streets of the Lower East Side. Though he was often accused of “cleaning up” his tenement children, depicting them with a “picture book” quality that belied the dinginess of their poor neighborhood, Myers preferred to focus on their youthful abandon and merriment rather than on any sordidness of their immediate environment.
MEDIUM
Graphite on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
DATES
ca. 1915
DIMENSIONS
Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE
Signed lower right, in graphite: "Jerome Myers"
COLLECTIONS
American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
40.694
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Jerome Myers (American, 1867–1940). Children Playing, ca. 1915. Graphite on beige, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 40.694. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 40.694_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 40.694_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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