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Biography |
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1867 |
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Born in Petersburg, VA |
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1876 |
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Family moved to Philadelphia, PA |
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1881 |
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Moved with the family to Baltimore, MD. Worked at various jobs including sign painting and posed as a model at the Baltimore Academy |
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1886 |
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Moved to New York, NY and began to work full time as a scene painter |
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1887 |
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Studied at Cooper Union, New York, NY; Painted his first New York picture |
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1888 |
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Studied at the Art Students League, New York, NY |
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1889 |
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Gave up scene painting and started to free lance with the Moss Engraving Company. Spent more time studying at Cooper Union and at the Art Students League under George DeForest Brush. |
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1893 |
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Sold a painting for the first time. |
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1894 |
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Moved into the old University Building on Washington Square |
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1895 |
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Found work in the art department of the Tribune |
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1896 |
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Traveled to France for a few months. Opened his first studio upon his return to New York |
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1900 |
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William Macbeth encouraged Myers to paint in oil, and began to show a few of his paintings at the Macbeth Gallery |
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1904 |
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Bronze Medal for Night Concert, Universal Exposition, MO. Met Ethel Klinck, Assistant Director of the Chase School (William Merritt Chase) who was later to become his wife. |
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1905 |
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Married Ethel Klinck |
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1912 |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought Myers painting, The Mission Tent. |
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1913 |
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Worked actively in the formation of the Armory Show |
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1914 |
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Traveled to London and Paris |
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1919 |
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Won the Clarke Prize at National Academy. Elected as associate member of the National Academy. |
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1929 |
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Elected a full member of the National Academy |
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1931 |
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Won the second Altman Prize, Carnegie Institute, for Street Shrine. |
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1936 |
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Won the Carnegie Prize |
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1938 |
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Isidor medal |
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1939 |
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Won second Altman Prize |
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1940 |
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Died in New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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1936 |
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Exhibited at the Carnegie Institute |
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1928 |
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Exhibited at Babcock Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Grand Central Art Gallery and the National Academy |
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1926 |
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Exhibited at the New Society of Artists, Chicago Art Institute |
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1923 |
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One-man exhibition at the Rehn Gallery |
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1920 |
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Exhibited at the National Academy, Kraushaar Galleries and at the Society of American Painters, Sculptors and Gravers of which he was a member |
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1919 |
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Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, Luxembourg Museum, Paris, France |
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1911 |
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The Pastellists, Exhibition with Walt Kuhn and Elmer MacRae, Madison Gallery, New York, NY |
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1908 |
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First one-man show was held at the Macbeth Gallery |
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1908 |
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Exhibited in group shows at the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy and the Print Gallery in New York |
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1904 |
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Exhibited at the Society of American Artists, the Municipal Art Society, at the National Arts Club, the Lotus Club and the Colonial Club |
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1903 |
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Began exhibiting in group exhibitions at the Macbeth Gallery |
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