Myron G. Barlow
Myron G. Barlow (May 1870, Ionia – 14 August 1937, Étaples) was an American figurative painter. A gold medalist in international art exhibitions, he had a home at the Etaples art colony (the colony a place in France in which American artists converged before World War 1). He was friend to Henry Ossawa Tanner. He also remained a resident of Detroit. Biography Myron G. Barlow was born on April 15, 1873 in Ionia, Michigan of the marriage of Adolph and Fanny Barlow. His father had been born in Breslau, Germany, immigrating to the United States in 1849 and serving in the Union Army with the 5th Michigan Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Barlow trained at the Detroit Museum School (later the Detroit Fine Arts Academy), where he studied with Joseph W. Gies (1860–1935), then at the Art Institute of Chicago. He began his career as a "sketch artist" on the staff of the Detroit Free Press. Barlow left for Europe in 1893 to study, and, upon his arrival in France at the age of twenty-one, was noticed by William Bouguereau. He enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme. In Amsterdam