Extraordinary Gifts: Selected Paintings from The Procter and Gamble Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum February 15, 2003 to September 12, 2004 Extraordinary Gifts: Selected Paintings from The Procter and Gamble Collection at the Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum logo
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Frank Harmon Myers (1899–1956)
The Ohio River, 1936
oil on canvas
22 x 28 in.

Raised in Norwood, Myers studied painting at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. From 1921 to 1943 he also taught at the academy and then retired to the California coast. Today he is remembered as a marine painter, but this earlier view of Cincinnati is far from the pastel crashing waves for which he is known. Here Myers used dirty colors and cubic shapes to show the East side of Cincinnati from Columbia Avenue (now Columbia Parkway). In the distance the peak of Mount Adams hides the shadowy buildings of the downtown skyline. A reviewer in 1936 described this work as having been “painted in a solid manner with the same direct and sure touch that is found in all of Frank Myers’ work.”