Triumph And Tribulations Analysis

Triumph and Tribulations

Macbeth Gallery Papers, AAA, Microfilm Reel NMC1, frame 134:
Table of Pictures
1. Christmas Dinner 13. The Mission Tent
2. The Carousel 14. The Night Mission
3. A Summer Night, Madison Square 15. Children’s Games
4. The Sand House 16. School Doorway
5. Evening on the East Side 17. Sunday Morning
6. Hucksters 18. A Windy Corner
7. An Italian Saint’s Day 19. On Fort George Hill
8. Happy Summer Hours 20. Children of Little Italy
9. The End of the Walk 21. A Court Yard Group
10. The Arbor Party 22. In Pursuit of Pleasure
11. By the River’s Breath 23. An Hour of Rest
12. The Park Swing 24. A North River Recreation Pier (kindly lent by Louis

“New York Canvases in Many Phases,” New York Herald (5 January 1908),un-paginated news clipping, Macbeth Gallery Papers, AAA, Microfilm Reel NMC1, frame 133; Untitled and un-paginated news clipping, New York Globe (6 January 1908), Macbeth Gallery Papers, AAA, Microfilm Reel NMC1, frame 135.

“Art Exhibitions,” New York Tribune (11 January 1908), 7.

James Gibbons Huneker, “Around the Galleries,” New York Sun (7 January 1908), 6. The Times noted, “The figures in these paintings are presented either in light or dark silhouettes, which gives an effect of flatness. Moreover, they are all too individualized—each figure considered alone is a fine characterization. Therefore, his groups are not groups at all, but single figures placed together, which oftener than not results in an interesting pattern, and occasionally in an incoherent jumble of unrelated facts.”

New York Times, (17 January 1908), untitled and un-paginated news clipping, Macbeth Gallery Papers, AAA, Microfilm Reel NMC1, frame

Undated letter, Jerome Myers Papers, Delaware Art Museum, Box 3, Miscellaneous correspondence folder.

Hester Street was a center of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century New York City, a thoroughfare normally crowded with pushcart markets and small shops. The location of the picture has been retained in the title to the hand–colored lithograph. The drypoint version has sometimes been misidentified as “Baseton and Hester Street,” a corruption of the name Baxter.

The etched version of Tenements featuring the pole with laundry is dated to 1912 with the titled altered to Old Junk Shop. It is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. An additional undated and carefully drawn graphite study of a tenement streetscape is East 22nd Street, New York in the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Macbeth Gallery Papers, AAA, Microfilm Reel NMC9, frame 1337. New York Sun (27 February 1908), 6: “Mr. Jerome Myers invites at lovers to view some recent paintings by Edward Adam Kramer at 142 West Twenty-third Street until March 7 during afternoons