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JEROME MYERS The Madonna Bearers.
Oil on paper laid on wood, circa 1925. 500x705 mm; 19 3/4x27 3/4 inches. Signed, titled "Sketch for Madonna Bearers" and inscribed with the artist's address "57 E. 59th St. N. Y. City" in black crayon, verso, and signed "Jerome Myers, E. M." by the artist's wife, Ethel Myers, in oil, lower left recto.
Ex-collection Dr. Byramji D. Saklatwalla, Pittsburgh; sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 1946; Babcock Gallery, New York; sold Doyle Auctions, New York, November 30, 2005, sale 05PT02, lot 254; private collection, New York.
Exhibited "Exhibition of Pictures by a Selected Group of American Artists," Montross Gallery, New York, April 25-May 13, 1916, number 35; "Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists," Albright Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Buffalo, New York, May 21-December 8, 1919, number 73; "Thirty-eighth Annual Exhibition," Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, April 1921; 'Studies by Well-Known Artists,' Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 1923; "Synthetic Exhibition," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1927; "International Exhibition of Paintings," Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1932.
Published "Oil Paintings and Water Colors at Montross Galleries," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 30, 1916, page 11; Peyton Boswell, "Exhibitions in the New York Galleries," Arts and Decoration, March 1919, page 272; Penelope Redd Jones, "Dr. Sakdatwalla's Loan of Paintings to Institute Makes Diverting Exhibition," Pittsburgh Daily Post, March 13, 1927, page 64; Gambone, Jerome Myers, The Ashcan Artist of the Lower East Side, New York, 2017, page 232.
