Object Timeline

1920

  • Work on this object began.

1930

  • Work on this object ended.

1954

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, Merry-Go-Round

This is a Drawing. It was created by Jerome Myers. It is dated ca. 1925 and we acquired it in 1954. Its medium is brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on cream wove paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Mrs. Jerome Myers. It is credited Gift of Mrs. Jerome Myers.

Its dimensions are

20.3 × 25.7 cm (8 × 10 1/8 in.)

It is signed

Signed in black crayon, lower left: Jerome Myers

It is inscribed

Inscribed in graphite, lower right: 55

Cite this object as

Drawing, Merry-Go-Round; Jerome Myers (American, 1867 - 1940); USA; brush and watercolor, pen and ink, graphite on cream wove paper; 20.3 × 25.7 cm (8 × 10 1/8 in.); Gift of Mrs. Jerome Myers; 1954-34-10

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