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Jerome Myers (1847-1940), Billy Rose’s Music Hall, ca. 1934. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.Jerome Myers (1847-1940)
Billy Rose’s Music Hall
Jerome Myers was born in Virginia and moved to New York City in 1886 at age 19. Inspired by his home in the Lower East Side, he chose to depict the immigrant neighborhoods and bustling markets he observed in his daily life. Additionally, his sketches and paintings of New York also extended to gatherings, celebrations and performances. The current example, Billy Rose’s Music Hall, shows the lavish interior of a music hall opened by Broadway producer Billy Rose at 52nd Street and Broadway in 1934. Filled with patrons raptly watching the performance and those conversing amongst themselves, the complex, multi-tiered composition is brimming with color and detail, conveying both the height of Myers’ artistic skill and his continued dedication to capturing the everyday New York City subjects that provided inspiration throughout his career. Billy Roses’ Music Hall was purchased by the well-known collector Francis P. Garvan in 1937.

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+++Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933), Portrait of a Painter, ca. 1894. Oil on canvas, 25¾ x 321/8 in., signed upper right: ‘L. C. Perry / [94?]’.Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933)
Portrait of a Painter
As 19th-century art historian Royal W. Leith discovered, Portrait of an Artist, by Lilla Cabot Perry, depicts fellow painter Arthur Murray Cobb, who regularly joined the Perrys for coffee each morning at their rented home in Giverny between 1891 and 1894. Perry obviously thought highly of the piece, exhibiting it at the Grande Exposition Des Beaux-Arts in Berlin, Germany, in 1895, and again back in the United States in a solo exhibition of her work in 1897 at the St. Botolph Club in Boston.

Perry was not only a very talented artist, but an instrumental figure in helping to increase appreciation for impressionist painting in the United States at the turn of the century. She would organize shows of many of her contemporaries at prestigious art clubs and other venues, and she was a founding member of the Guild of Boston Artists in 1914. Early works painted during her years in Giverny are rarely on the market today, and this piece is in beautiful condition and retains a period frame.

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