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Agnes Ernst Meyer

Meyer, Agnes E.

American, 1887 - 1970

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Max Weber, Girl with Flowers, c. 1910, gouache on paperboard, Gift of Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz, 2001.112.2

Girl with Flowers

Max Weber · c. 1910 · gouache on paperboard ·  Accession ID  2001.112.2

John Marin, Woolworth Building, No. 32 [recto], 1913, watercolor over graphite, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.11.a

Woolworth Building, No. 32 [recto]

John Marin · 1913 · watercolor over graphite ·  Accession ID  1967.13.11.a

John Marin, Woolworth Building, No. 29, 1912, watercolor, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.10

Woolworth Building, No. 29

John Marin · 1912 · watercolor ·  Accession ID  1967.13.10

The sculpture is an abstract, elongated form. It is upright and smoothly curved, with a shiny black surface. The sculpture is comprised of curving segments that blend together, almost like an abstracted human leg with exaggerated bulges. It stands on a square block, which is placed on a cylindrical base of the same glossy black material.
Constantin Brâncuși, Agnes E. Meyer, 1929, marble, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.4

Agnes E. Meyer

Constantin Brâncuși · 1929 · marble ·  Accession ID  1967.13.4

John Marin, Woolworth Building [verso], 1913, watercolor over graphite, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.11.b

Woolworth Building [verso]

John Marin · 1913 · watercolor over graphite ·  Accession ID  1967.13.11.b

John Marin, Woolworth Building, No. 31, 1912, watercolor over graphite, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.9

Woolworth Building, No. 31

John Marin · 1912 · watercolor over graphite ·  Accession ID  1967.13.9

John Marin, Broadway, Singer Building, 1912, watercolor over graphite, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.7

Broadway, Singer Building

John Marin · 1912 · watercolor over graphite ·  Accession ID  1967.13.7

Auguste Renoir, Nude, c. 1895, oil on canvas, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.1

Nude

Auguste Renoir · c. 1895 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1967.13.1

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Paolo and Francesca

Auguste Rodin · c. 1909 · marble ·  Accession ID  2014.136.249

A towering skyscraper zooms up and away from us in this loosely painted, vertical watercolor. People and buildings crowding the bottom third of the composition are painted in almost abstract shapes in tones of lapis and slate blue, harvest yellow, garnet red. In the center of the composition, the lower two-thirds of the Woolworth Building are lined with ghostly rows of pale blue and brown windows over mostly blank, cream-white paper. The top third of the building is painted with more saturated violet and smoky purple beneath a coral red tip. Slashes and swishes in pastel peach, blue, and yellow fill the sky.
John Marin, Woolworth Building, No. 28, 1912, watercolor over graphite, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, 1967.13.8

Woolworth Building, No. 28

John Marin · 1912 · watercolor over graphite ·  Accession ID  1967.13.8

Bibliography

1944

  • Meyer, Agnes E. Journey Through Chaos. New York, 1944.

1953

  • Meyer, Agnes E. Out of These Roots, The Autobiography of an American Woman. Boston, 1953.

1970

  • "Mrs. Agnes Meyer Dies at 83; Writer Active in Social Causes." The New York Times 2 September 1970 [obituary]

1980

  • Hyland, Douglas K.S. "Agnes Ernst Meyer, Patron of American Modernism." The American Art Journal 12, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 64+.