Ethel Myers

Mae Ethel Klinck Myers better known as Ethel Myers was a New York Realist artist and sculptor strongly influenced in her work by the goals of the Ashcan School and its leader and famous teacher, Robert Henri. Her earliest subjects for pictures involved her capturing the life of the Lower East Side as well as journeying to slums in other cities such as Boston. Her greatest fame came some years later, after her marriage to New York artist Jerome Myers, when she became known for her figurative bronze statuettes and figurines with a quite uncommon sense of humor, and with more than this, a feeling for form and movement that gives them life and conviction. Her three powerfully expressed sculptured figurines impress this reviewer with the fact that she is worthy of a place alongside of Daumier, Meunier and Mahonri Young.

Mae Ethel Klinck was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1881. Her 20yearold mother was already seriously ill at the time of her birth and died when Ethel wasyears old. Ethels father was already dead and so she became an orphan. She was later adopted by Michael and Alfiata Klinck, an affluent couple who renamed her Mae Ethel Klinck. After the death of her husband, Alfiata and her daughter, moved between Brooklyn and Orange, N.J. which helped provide Ethel with a strong early education in both public and private schools. It was also her adoptive mother who encouraged Ethel to train on the piano in hopes of her becoming a concert pianist.

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