Virginia Modeling, Study for Etching

Jerome Myers sketched this intimate studio scene—a young model posing while an artist works at an easel, a basket of flowers nearby. Though rendered in Myers's loose, expressive line work, this is not a comic strip but a preparatory study for an etching. Myers, a New York realist painter, documented urban life and working-class subjects throughout his career. His fluid draftsmanship captures the quiet concentration of artistic labor itself, the model's patient stillness contrasted with the artist's active engagement. The sketch reveals the working methods behind fine art printmaking in the early twentieth century.