Here is an original marker on paper drawing by artist Seymour Meyer. Actual size of art (not framed size) = 22" x 28"This following biography was researched, compiled, and written by Geoffrey K. Fleming, Director, Southold Historical Society, Southold, NY.Seymour W. Meyer (May 27, 1914 – April 20, 2009)Sculptor and physician. Born in Brooklyn to Nettie (b. 1887) and Louis Meyer (b. 1877). His father was a shoe dealer with his own store. Both his parents were Jewish immigrants from Russia who later became naturalized United States citizens. During his youth, the family resided on Tompkins Avenue in Brooklyn, Long Island, New York. Meyer attended Brooklyn College, where he graduated in 1934 (he won a lifetime achievement award from the college in 1994). For his medical training, he attended the New York University School of Medicine, where he graduated in 1939 and then interned at Cumberland hospital. He worked as successful hand surgeon and an attending physician at Beth El, Cumberland, and St. John’s hospitals in Brooklyn, and resided in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. During the summers of the early 1960's, he was a house doctor at Grossinger's resort in the Catskills. He was also a founder of the now closed Deepdale General Hospital in Little Neck, New York. Meyer was the author of a surgical textbook as well as numerous articles on surgery and was an inventor with a number of patents to his credit.In the early 1960's Meyer – whose own family had never owned nor been interested in art – decided to enroll in the Great Neck School District's adult education program to study sculpture. Considering his knowledge of the human body and its anatomical structure, it is not surprising he chose sculpture, though he would follow an abstract route. It was his good fortune that the noted American sculptor, Louise Nevelson (1899 – 1988), taught his course. Her simple, informal instruction was a perfect match to Meyer's personality, and he thrived under her tutelage. It is said he was among her favorite students and, according to John Hirsch, Meyer became her protégée.By the mid-1960s, Meyer had achieved enough confidence to begin exhibiting his works publically, and they immediately found favor. In 1965 he started to show at local venues, the Almus Gallery and Studio 733, both located in Great Neck. The following year, he participated in his first New York City exhibition, held at the

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