Datus Ensign Myers

Datus Ensign Myers (1879–1960) was a Santa Fe, New Mexico based artist.

Datus Ensign Myers
Born1879
Jefferson, Oregon
Died1960
Siskiyou County, California
EducationChouinard Institute of Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Known formurals
Stylerealism
SpouseAlice Clark Myers

Early life and education

Myers was born September 29, 1879, in Jefferson, Oregon. He attended the Chouinard School of Art and the Chicago Art Institute.[1]

Work

Myers and his wife Alice Clark Myers moved to Santa Fe in 1923, settling in the Camino del Monte Sol area in 1925. Myers is known for his landscape paintings, and idealized representations of Indigenous life in the American West.[1]

Myers became the Indian Division field coordinator for the New Deal's Public Works of Art Program in the 1930s. In this position, Myers would recruit Indigenous artists from the local Pueblos to participate in the WPA public art programs.[2]

Myer's 1910 mural, Settlers and Indians was created for the Carl Von Linné Elementary School's main hallway.[3] He was commissioned to paint a mural in 1939 in a New Deal program for murals in post offices; his work Logging in the Louisiana Swamps was painted for the post office built in 1936 by the WPA in Winnsboro, Louisiana, which has become a museum.[4]

Logging in Louisiana Swamps (mural study, Winnsboro, Louisiana Post Office) SAAM-1974.28.35 1

Personal life

Myers was married in 1910 to Alice Clark Myers, an architect. He died in 1960 in Siskiyou County, California.[1][5]

References
  1. "Datus Ensign Myers". AskArt. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. "Echoes of Influence: Datus Mysers and the Pueblo Painters". Western Art and Architecture. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  3. "Chicago: The City in Art, 1995–2000". Students & Teachers: The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  4. "New Deal/WPA Art in Louisiana". WPA Murals. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  5. Alice Hartzel Clark (Myers) in The Alumni Record of the University of Illinois. University of Illinois. 1913. p. 349. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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