[Two Women: Yellow Dress, Blue Dress]

A student of William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, Myers is known for her insightful portrayals of New York women of different social classes, often wearing exaggerated fashions, whether strolling the avenues or at the theater. Her candid, lively assessment of contemporary social types—variously humorous or pointed—positioned her among the few women urban realist artists after the turn of the twentieth century, alongside better-known male members of the so-called Ashcan group and her husband, Jerome Myers. She also worked as a dress and hat designer, bringing a sure hand and sharp wit to her drawings, published illustrations, and sculpture. This engaging sketch of the beribboned backs of two strollers features Myers’s talent for nuanced color and gestural lines and curves.