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Flax Art Supply Stores
Flax is the name for a collection of art supply stores that opened between 1919 and 1946. Started by four brothers from the Flax family, with primary locations in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago, each business was independently owned and operated, yet through common branding they represented a coast-to-coast Flax Art Supply presence.
As of May 2015, Flax family owned and operated specialty retail stores continue in Orlando, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
== Beginnings ==
In 1903, Meyer Flax arrived in New York on the SS Pennsylvania from a small farming community in Russia.〔Staatsarchiv Hamburg. ''Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934'' (database on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.〕 The eldest in a family of six children with four boys and two girls, Meyer earned enough over the next two years to send tickets back home for his siblings and parents so they could join him in America. The family settled in Bayonne, New Jersey. Meyer sent his two younger brothers, Louis and Sam, to school, while Herman, the second oldest and still a young teenager, joined Meyer’s growing painting and contracting business. In 1911, Louis was invited into the business before he and Herman spent time in World War I, after which the three brothers, Meyer, Herman and Louis, enjoyed much success until the 1930s.
Sam had secured his livelihood with an art supply business. When his three brothers lost their contracting business and all real estate holdings in the Great Depression, Sam invited them into his business to learn the art supply trade. Not wanting to compete with kin, eventually Meyer, Herman and Louis each moved with their family to a different American city, spreading the Flax art supply stores across the country.〔1964, February, "Industry Mourns Sam Flax, Outstanding Pioneer, Leader", ''Art Material Trade News'', volume XVI, number 2, pages 8-9.〕〔1972, November, "What Makes Lenny Run?", ''Art Material Trade News'', volume XXIV, number 11, pages 22-23, 46-47.〕〔1974, September, "Sam Flax Goes To Atlanta", ''Art Material Trade News'', volume XXVI, number 9, pages 28-29.〕
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