“Born in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Philadelphia, Trenton and Baltimore, he spent his adult life in New York City. Myers worked briefly as an actor and scene painter, then studied art at Cooper Union and the Art Students League where his main teacher was George de Forest Brush. In 1896 and 1914, he was in Paris, but his main classroom was the streets of New York's lower East Side. His strong interest and feelings for the new immigrants and their life resulted in hundreds of drawings, as well as paintings, etchings and watercolors capturing the whole panorama of their lives as found outside of the crowded tenements which were their first homes in America” (1).
“Myers relished in the outdoor activities of New Yorkers, and at the end of his life he regretted a new distrusting atmosphere in which people tended to stay more at home: “Something is gone. Something is missing. I say to myself, 'It is the warmth of human contact.' New Yorkers no longer live in the open." Myers continued to exhibit and win prizes: five at the National Academy of Design” (2).
“Jerome Myers studied in New York and won a bronze medal at the St Louis Exhibition of 1904.
[He] died 1940, in New York” (2).
Reference:
1.
Fam People Staff. Jerome Myers: biography [internet]. [cited 2015 Oct 4]. Available from: http://www.fampeople.com/cat-jerome-myers
2.
Askart Staff. Jerome Myers [internet]. [cited 2015 Oct 4]. Available from: http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/Jerome_Myers/23655/Jerome_Myers.aspx