biography of Myron G. BARLOW (1873-1937)

Birth place: Ionia, MI

Death place: …taples, France

Addresses: Detroit, MI/Etaples, France

Profession: Painter

Studied: AIC; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Gérome, in Paris; Académie Colarossi, Paris, 1894 (med.); Académie Julian, Paris, 1893-95; also with Whistler in Paris

Exhibited: Paris Salon (gold med.) 1897, 1898; AIC; PAFA, 1903-1910; St. Louis Expo., 1904 (gold); CGA, 1908-12; P.-P. Expo., San Fran., 1915 (gold). Award: Knight of the Leg. of Honor, France.

Member: Paris AAA; Paris SAP; Soc. Nat. BA, Paris; Phila. AC; FA Soc., Detroit

Work: PAFA; Detroit Inst. A.; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Douai, France; Municiple Coll., Etaples

Comments: Barlow specialized in painting the peasantry and countryside of Northern France. He died in …taples while on his annual summer stay there.

Sources: WW33; Gibson, Artists of Early Michigan, 44; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 318.