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Frank Harmon Myers papers

Creator:
Myers, Frank Harmon, 1899-1956  Search this
Names:
Bunker, John  Search this
Myers, Ella Price  Search this
Extent:
2.2 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1891-1976
bulk 1908-1960
Summary:
The papers of painter Frank Harmon Myers measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1891 to 1976, with the bulk of the records dating from 1908 to 1963. The records shed light on the artist's career in Ohio and California through biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, artwork, printed materials, and photographic materials.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of painter Frank Harmon Myers measure 2.2 linear feet and date from 1891 to 1976, with the bulk of the records dating from 1908 to 1963. The records shed light on the artist's career in Ohio and California through biographical materials, personal and professional correspondence, artwork, printed materials, and photographic materials.

Biographical materials include Myers' resume, letters that confirm some of the courses he studied and taught, one membership list and meeting minutes of the Carmel Art Association, notes from a Myers art lecture on Sante Fe, one sales ledger, and drafts and notes of "And The Glory," a biography on Myers written by his wife, Ella Price Myers. Correspondence is a mixture of personal and professional letters, shedding light on Myers' freidnships, personal and professional relationship with his wife, and his travels. Correspondents include artists Sheldon Dixie and Albert Berne, poet and advertiser John Bunker, Myers' nephew Sheldon, and his son Frank. The series also includes a map that of the United States on which Myers traced his sketching trips, 1926 to 1950, a cartoon by Herman Wessel, and clippings related to John Weis. Printed materials include newspaper and magazine clippings concerning Myers' artwork, career, and exhibitions, a series of advertisements illustrated by Myers, two lithographs of his artwork, and some exhibition ephemera. Artwork consists of childhood drawings by Myers of Native Americans, holiday themes, and portraits; later sketches, mostly in charcoal and pencil, include figure and portrait studies, city scenes, and several still lifes; one 1916 landscape painting by Myers, cloth with a linoleum block design, paint samples from Myers' studio, and small sketches and doodles drawn on scraps of paper. Photographic materials depict Myers' artwork, portraits of the artist, his family and friends, and his home in Pacific Grove.

A fair amount of the collection's files include notes with contextual information written by Ella Price Myers.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged as five series.

Series 1: Biographical Materials, 1891-1976 (Box 1; .2 linear feet)

Series 2: Correspondence, 1921-1973 (Box 1-2; 1 linear feet)

Series 3: Printed Materials, 1924-1963 (Box 2, OV 3; .5 linear feet)

Series 4: Artwork, circa 1908-1956 (Box 2, OV 4; .6 linear feet)

Series 5: Photographical Materials, 1910-1962 (Box 2; 4 folders)
Biographical / Historical:
Frank Harmon Myers (1899-1956) was an impressionist painter and art educator who lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Pacific Grove, California. Myers was born in Cleves, Ohio, and moved to Cincinnati around 1907. His interest in art took off prior to his teenage years, illustrating a series of body-length portraits of Native Americans, several landscapes, and art with holiday themes. Myers studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under Frank Duveneck, H. H. Wessel, and John Ellsworth Weiss; took a summer course at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Daniel Garber, Hugh Henry Breckenridge, and Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.; and the School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau, France, under Jean Despujols and Gourguet. Myers began showing his art at the Closson Galleries circa 1920 and taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from 1921 to circa 1941. In 1932, Myers spent a year on sabbatical in Sante Fe, New Mexico, painting animals, people, ranches and farms, villages, and landscapes. He and his wife, Ella Price Myers, moved to Pacific Grove, California, in 1940 so that Myers could pursue painting full-time. His work was frequently exhibited at the Carmel Art Association from this point onwards, with additional solo shows at Pebble Beach Galleries, San Jose State College, M. H. De Young Museum, Crocker Art Gallery, and others. Myers paintings were featured in group exhibitions at The Salon, Paris, Harlow Galleries, New York, St. Louis City Museum, Missouri, Alright Museum, New York, and more. Myers served as president of the Carmel Art Association in 1953.
Separated Materials:
The Archives of American Art also holds one scrapbook of Frank Myers publicity, circa 1925-1945, lent for microfilming on reel D42. Loaned materials were returned to Ella Price Myers and are not described in the collection container inventory.
Provenance:
The collection was donated by Ella Price Myers, Myers' widow, from 1960 to 1974. An addition was donated in 1994 by Myers' daughter-in-law Patricia Clarke Myers, ex-wife of Myers' only son Frank P. Myers.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Occupation:
Educators -- Ohio -- Cincinnati  Search this
Landscape painters -- Ohio -- Cincinnati  Search this
Painters -- Ohio -- Cincinnati  Search this
Painters -- California -- Monterey  Search this
Topic:
Painting, American  Search this
Impressionism (Art) -- United States  Search this
Citation:
Frank Harmon Myers papers, 1891-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.myerfran
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Frank Harmon Myers papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9077c2193-4a6b-4502-a980-af9b71db1d43
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-aaa-myerfran

Biographical Materials

Collection Creator:
Myers, Frank Harmon, 1899-1956  Search this
Extent:
.2 Linear feet (Box 1)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1891-1976
Scope and Contents:
Found here is Myers' resume, letters from administrators and instructors certifying some of the courses Myers studied and taught, and other biographical information; one membership list and meeting minutes of the Carmel Art Association, written by Myers on index cards; notes from a lecture on Sante Fe given by Myers to the Cincinnati Art Museum; and a sales ledger for Myers' artwork, much of which was sold at Closson Galleries in Cincinnati. Also present are notes, drafts, and the manuscript for "And the Glory," a biography of Myers by Ella Price Myers, his mother's teaching certificate, landscape design plans for his home in Pacific Grove, and a list of Myers' students from the Pescadero Art Ranch.
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Frank Harmon Myers papers, 1891-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.myerfran, Series 1
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Frank Harmon Myers papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9e370a7c6-d121-428c-9393-2ed7a7651759
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-myerfran-ref24

Artwork

Collection Creator:
Myers, Frank Harmon, 1899-1956  Search this
Extent:
.6 Linear feet (Box 2, OV 4)
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1908-1956
Scope and Contents:
The artwork series includes drawings on loose sheets and sketchbooks—handmade and factory produced—with depictions of Native Americans, Christmas themes, and portraits. Later sketches, mostly in charcoal and pencil, consist of figure and portrait studies, city scenes, and several still lifes. Also found here is a landscape painting Myers gave to Ella Price in 1916, cloth with a linoleum block design that Myers experimented with, paint samples from the artist's studio, and small sketches and doodles drawn on scraps of paper.
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Frank Harmon Myers papers, 1891-1976. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
AAA.myerfran, Series 4
See more items in:
Frank Harmon Myers papers
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw91fcc348c-af4d-4618-b300-30f5545e4382
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-myerfran-ref55

Hollow Tree, Frederick County, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.01
Topic:
Landscape--Tree  Search this
Architecture exterior  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670869
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480438

The Marina, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.02
Topic:
Landscape--Wharf  Search this
Landscape--Coast  Search this
Architecture--Boat--Sailboat  Search this
Architecture--Boat--Motorboat  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670870
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480439

Lock No. 2 in Georgetown, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.03
Topic:
Landscape--Washington--Georgetown  Search this
Waterscape--Canal  Search this
Architecture exterior  Search this
Architecture--Bridge  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670871
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480440

Cornstalks, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.04
Topic:
Landscape--Farm  Search this
Landscape--Plant--Corn  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670872
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480441

Sugarloaf Landscape, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.06
Topic:
Landscape--Mountain--Sugarloaf Mountain  Search this
Landscape--Maine  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670874
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480443

Cherry Blossoms, (painting)

Title:
Orchard in Bloom, Spring Day, (painting)
Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.07
Topic:
Landscape--Tree--Cherry Tree  Search this
Landscape--Season--Spring  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670875
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480444

The Harvest, (painting)

Painter:
Aderente, Vincent 1880-1941  Search this
Kip, W. Ruloff 1876-1935  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Paintings-Mural
Owner/Location:
Destroyed
Date:
1903
Topic:
Figure group  Search this
Animal--Cattle  Search this
Religion--Angel  Search this
Landscape--Tree  Search this
Control number:
IAP 78460265
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480446

The Fourth of July, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.12
Topic:
Landscape--Season--Summer  Search this
Ceremony--Holiday--Fourth of July  Search this
Ceremony--Other--Fireworks  Search this
Figure group--Female & Child  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670880
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480453

Spring Morning on the Farm, (painting)

Painter:
Smith, Gladys Nelson 1890-1980  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas mounted on Upson board
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Johnson Collection, The 100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203 Spartanburg South Carolina 29306 Accession Number: 2023.10.14
Date:
1920s-1930s
Topic:
Landscape--Season--Spring  Search this
Landscape--Time--Morning  Search this
Landscape--Farm  Search this
Architecture exterior  Search this
Control number:
IAP 68670882
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_480455

Photographs of Robert Adams

Artist:
Adams, Robert 1937-  Search this
Author:
Greenough, Sarah 1951-  Search this
Writer of afterword:
Williams, Terry Tempest  Search this
Host institution:
National Gallery of Art (U.S.),.)  Search this
Nevada Museum of Art  Search this
Subject:
Adams, Robert 1937-  Search this
Physical description:
332 pages illustrations 30 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Expositions
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition
Place:
United States
États-Unis
Date:
2021
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Topic:
Landscape photography  Search this
Photographie de paysages  Search this
PHOTOGRAPHY / General  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1158636

Survival and its pictures

Author:
Winant, Carmen  Search this
Writer of added text:
Sweet, Paige L. 1987-  Search this
Sawyer, Drew  Search this
Opie, Catherine 1961-  Search this
Ferrato, Donna  Search this
Nouril, Ksenia  Search this
Ravichandran, Sangi  Search this
Glenn, Ruth M  Search this
Lacy, Suzanne  Search this
Abril, Laia  Search this
Brantley, Irene L  Search this
Rodriques, Elias  Search this
Author:
Print Center for Prints and Photographs (Philadelphia, Pa.)  Search this
Physical description:
256 pages illustrations (chiefly color) 28 cm
Type:
Books
Art
Date:
2022
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Intimate partner violence--Photography  Search this
Feminism and art  Search this
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)--In art  Search this
Photographie artistique  Search this
Violence entre partenaires--Photographie  Search this
Féminisme et art  Search this
Coupures de presse--Dans l'art  Search this
art photography  Search this
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1159577

Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the greatest jazz collaboration ever

Author:
Griffin, Farah Jasmine  Search this
Washington, Salim  Search this
Physical description:
294 pages illustrations 22 cm
Type:
Books
Nonfiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Date:
2008
Topic:
Jazz--History and criticism  Search this
Jazz  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1162880

Contemporary photography in China

Editor:
Chiu, Melissa  Search this
Johnson, Betsy (Curator)  Search this
Contributor:
Roberts, Claire 1959-  Search this
Schell, Orville  Search this
Smith, Karen (Art historian)  Search this
Warsh, Larry  Search this
Issuing body:
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 225 pages (some folded) illustrations (chiefly color), portraits 29 cm
Type:
Books
Pictorial works
Exhibition catalogs
Photobooks
Illustrated works
Catalogues d'exposition
Livres de photographies
Place:
China
Chine
Date:
2023
20th century
21st century
20e siècle
21e siècle
Topic:
Photography--History  Search this
Photography, Artistic--History  Search this
Photographie--Histoire  Search this
Photographie artistique  Search this
Photography  Search this
History  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1163665

Landscape photography 1865 to now

Title:
Landscape photography eighteen sixty five to now
Author:
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art  Search this
Nickel, Douglas R (Douglas Robert) 1961-  Search this
Bright, Deborah 1950-  Search this
Howard, Jan 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
125 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
United States
Date:
2012
©2012
Topic:
Landscape photography  Search this
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_994931

Frankenthaler, Helen

Collection Creator:
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this
Container:
Box 3, Folder 38
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1950s, 1950-1954
Series Restrictions:
Correspondence between Peter Fuller, Andre Emmerich, and Clement Greenberg; correspondence with Nuala O'Faolain; Greenberg family letters; and additional individual letters from a variety of correspondents are access restricted. Written permission is required. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
The Clement Greenberg papers, 1937-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Clement Greenberg papers
Clement Greenberg papers / Series 3: Correspondence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9cc3f4e79-e1ba-4ec5-81f3-e866c2f237cf
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-greeclep-ref197
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Noland, Kenneth/Stephanie

Collection Creator:
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this
Container:
Box 6, Folder 9
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1962-1983
Series Restrictions:
Correspondence between Peter Fuller, Andre Emmerich, and Clement Greenberg; correspondence with Nuala O'Faolain; Greenberg family letters; and additional individual letters from a variety of correspondents are access restricted. Written permission is required. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
The Clement Greenberg papers, 1937-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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Clement Greenberg papers
Clement Greenberg papers / Series 3: Correspondence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9dbb95845-de97-4f73-adfe-3fa7562ae175
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-greeclep-ref363
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Pepper, Beverly

Collection Creator:
Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994  Search this
Container:
Box 6, Folder 30
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1966-1969
Series Restrictions:
Correspondence between Peter Fuller, Andre Emmerich, and Clement Greenberg; correspondence with Nuala O'Faolain; Greenberg family letters; and additional individual letters from a variety of correspondents are access restricted. Written permission is required. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
The Clement Greenberg papers, 1937-1983. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
See more items in:
Clement Greenberg papers
Clement Greenberg papers / Series 3: Correspondence
Archival Repository:
Archives of American Art
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw938e2f6ae-031f-4e9f-90eb-af007c9a604a
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-aaa-greeclep-ref384

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