East River Pier, Third Street (Primary Title)
Jerome Myers, American, 1867 - 1940 (Artist)
With The Hucksters (45.20.2) and East River Pier, Third Street, Jerome Myers gives an insider’s perspective of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a common subject of the Ashcan School. Like those artists, Myers captured urban life in all its sullied dynamism; and also like them, he showed his work at Macbeth Gallery in New York (indeed he exhibited at Macbeth in 1908, just before the famed exhibition of The Eight, which featured works by Robert Henri, John Sloan, and other realists). The street peddlers or hawkers, known as hucksters, evoke the populist and hands-on vernacular sensibility that is also the subject of his biography, An Artist in Manhattan (1940).
Signed in graphite at lower left corner: "Jerome Myers"
Gift of Joseph T. and Jane Joel Knox
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC
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