Fanette Reider Meyers papers
name: label: Creator
content: Meyers, Fanette Reider, 1889-1987
label: Interviewer
content: Adelman, Seymour, 1906-
label: Interviewer
content: Salander, Lawrence B.
label: Names
content: Schamberg, Morton L., 1881-1918
label: Names
content: Sheeler, Charles, 1883-1965
label: Interviewer
content: Solis-Cohen, Lita
topic: label: Topic
content: Artists' models -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Upon Fanette Meyers' death, her Morton Schamberg materials were turned over to her son, Morton Meyers, and her daughter, Mrs. Murray Makransky, who loaned them to the Archives of American Art for microfilming.
creator: label: Creator
content: Meyers, Fanette Reider, 1889-1987
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Fanette Reider Meyers (18819-1997) was an artists' model in Philadelphia, Pa. She modeled for, and was friends with, both Morton Schamberg and Charles Sheeler.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 46 Items ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: [ca. 1908-1982]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.meyefane
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4397 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to the lenders, Mrs. Murray Makransky and Morton Meyers, after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interviews of Meyers, photographs, and an exhibition catalog document her friendship with artists Morton Schamberg and Charles Sheeler.
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNMICROFILMED: Recordings of interviews of Meyers (untranscribed). In Larry Salander's Nov. 19, 1982 interview of Meyers, conducted in preparation for a Schamberg exhibition, she recalls the artists Schamberg and Charles Sheeler, whom she knew from approximately 1908 to 1915. Meyers discusses sitting for both photographic and painted portraits, events she attended with them, and reactions to Schamberg's work. In a May 1,1982 interview with Lita Solis-Cohen and Seymour Adelman, Meyers recalls her modeling sessions for Schamberg and Sheeler, their studio, Schamberg's family and the response to an exhibition of Schamberg's work at the Pennsylvania Academy.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4397: Photographs of Schamberg (several possibly by Charles Sheeler), a group of young women, and Schamberg paintings (ca. 1977); photographs by Schamberg of Fanette Reider Meyers and Morton Meyers; a catalog for Schamberg's 1910 McClees Gallery exhibition; and a letter from Martin Diamond to Fanette Meyers (1980) regarding her Schamberg photographs.