Myron G. Barlow | |
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 Autochrome by Georges Chevalier, 1930 | |
| Born | April 15, 1870[A] Ionia, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1937 (aged 67)[3] |
| Resting place | Étaples |
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| Known for | paintings |
| Style | Genre painting[7] |
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Myron G. Barlow (May 1870, Ionia – 14 August 1937, Étaples) was an American figurative painter known for his paintings of the lives of rural French women. A gold medalist in international art exhibitions, he had a home at the Etaples art colony (the colony a place in France in which American artists converged before World War 1). He was friend to Henry Ossawa Tanner. He also remained a resident of Detroit.[14]
- ^ "Myon Barlow Census • United States Census, 1870". familysearch.org.
Page No. 9 Inhabitants in Village of Ionia in the State of Michigan enumerated by me on the 26th day of July, 1870... Line 9 Barlow, Myron Age 1/12 Sex M Color W Place of birth Michigan Father of foreign birth x Mother of foreign birth x If born within the year, state month May
- ^ "United States of America Petition for Naturalization". FamilySearch.
[Note: This was a legal document signed by Myron's father that detailed the circumstances for the family's arrival in America and the birthdate of 8 out of 9 of the family's children. Myron was listed as born 15 April 1870. He had used 15 April on other documents as his birthday, but always wrote 1873. The 1870 Cenus and the Petition for Naturalization, both having his father give the information use the year 1870.]
- ^ "Obituaries: Myron Barlow". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 16 August 1937. p. 15.
Word that Mr. Barlow, former Detroiter and internationally famed painter, died in France Saturday night was received Sunday by members of his family in Detroit. He died at his home near Etaples, on the French North Coast, overlooking the Strait of Dover and the English Channel. He had owned the home since before the World War.
- ^ a b c Annette Stott (1987). "Myron Barlow (1873-1937)". Artists of Michigan from the nineteenth century : a sesquicentennial exhibition commemorating Michigan statehood, 1837-1987 : the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Detroit Historical Museum. Muskegon Museum of Art. pp. 111–113.
...he studied at the Detroit Museum School with the local porait painter Joseph W. Gies. By the time he was nineteen, Barlow was listing himself as an artist in the city directory and had entered Charles E. Boutwood's advance course in figure painting and portraiture at the Evening School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A year later Barlow set sail for Paris, the mecca of young artists during this time.
- ^ a b c d e "Michigan's Contribution to Art". Michigan Library Bulletin. 7 (2): 30–31.
BARLOW, MYRON, (P.) b. Ionia, Michigan, 1873. A pupil of the Art Institute, Chicago; Gérome and Ecoledes Beaux Arts in Paris. He received his first medal in 1894 when he exhibited at the Academie Colarossi; and when elected a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in 1907 he was the only American to receive the honor at that time. He is a member of the Paris American Artists Association.
- ^ a b "Given first prize". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 2 April 1894. p. 5.
- ^ a b "Hail Simon as Master". The Times-Democrat. New Orleans, Louisiana. 14 April 1910. p. 2.
The Efforts of Myron Barlow...lauded... Paris, April 13... Société National des Beaux Arts... Among other much-admired work of Americans are Myron Barlow's Delicate Genre studies...
- ^ "Artist Myron Barlow Visiting the Scenes of His Youth". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. 2 March 1905. p. 11.
- ^ "Detroit Artist Honored". The Times Herald. Port Huron, Michigan. 3 July 1907. p. 4.
- ^ "More Than Two-Score Americans". Boston Evening Transcript. Boston, Massachusetts. 3 May 1913. p. 37.
More Than Two-Score Americans Forty to fifty Americans exhibit this year in the section of oil. Among them are eight societaires (full member); Alexander Harrison (since 1890), Gari Melchers (since 1895), Jules Stewart (since 1899), Walter Gay and Elizabeth Nourse (since 1901), Cecilia Beaux (since 1902), Frederick Frieseke (since 1906) and Myron Barlow (since 1912).
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Myron Barlow is represented by his prize picture "Apples," awarded gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
- ^ Leslie S. Mio. "There's Always a Detroit Connection". Cranbrook Kitchen Sink, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research.
In 1907, he was the only American elected to the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in 1932 was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French Government.
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