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(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Charles "Chewy" Myers. Portraits and views by an accomplished amateur artist in the Navy. 16 paintings and drawings, most 14 x 11 inches or slightly smaller; minor wear. Various places, 1943-1972
Charles Thomas "Chewy" Myers (1923-2001) was born and raised in Gettysburg, PA, and served in the Navy during World War Two. After the war, he lived in Baltimore, where he was a railroad employee and then a graphic artist for the United States Post Office. He was a prolific amateur photographer and portrait artist. Offered here are three 14 x 11-inch oil portraits done while he was in the Navy in 1944: one of a soldier (pilot?), one of a woman, and another of a sailor (thought to be a self-portrait). 6 slightly smaller watercolor or pen and ink portraits of women are dated 1944 to 1966; one with flowers in her hair appears to be Billie Holiday. A small pen and ink sketch of a marching soldier is dated 2 June 1943. Finally, a spiral-bound notebook contains 6 of his views dated 1967 to 1972, each 14 x 10 inches. One of the drawings is of a baseball pitcher, dated June 1967. The pitcher wears uniform number 36; we suspect it may be pitcher Tom Phoebus, then a promising rookie with the Baltimore Orioles. Other sketches include a man steering a ship; a street of row houses; and a woman at a laundromat.
