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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.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

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

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.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

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

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.

Sponsor:

The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.myerfran, Series 4

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Funding for the digitization of the papers was provided in part by The Walton Family Foundation.

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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

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.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Funding for the digitization of the papers was provided in part by The Walton Family Foundation.

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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

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.

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Funding for the digitization of the papers was provided in part by The Walton Family Foundation.

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