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Marsh studied with the Ashcan School artist John Sloan, who encouraged him to sketch city life in situ. Like others in the Fourteenth Street School, Marsh found inspiration in the people who gathered in the city’s public spaces, such as beaches, subways, amusement parks, streets, and dance halls.
Fig. 1 - Reginald Marsh, Hat Display, 1939, watercolor on paper, 48 1/4 x 26 1/2 inches. Inventory of Hirschl & Adler Modern (as of 2017). Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, moving to America by age two. His parents, both artists themselves, were well-off: Marsh’s grandfather had made his fortune in the Chicago meatpacking business.
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) is well-known as an American realist painter and printmaker who was based in New York City. But few people are aware of his accomplished use of photography to create life studies for some of his best-known work. His photographs record the dress, body language, and activities of everyday New Yorkers during the 1930s ...
Reginald Marsh. Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, on 14 March 1898. In 1900, his parents, American artists, moved to Nutley, New Jersey, and subsequently to New Rochelle, New York. At Yale University, Marsh studied art and drew illustrations for The Yale Record. After graduation in 1920, he worked as a freelance illustrator in New York.
Catalogue Raisonné. Title: Coney Island Beach. Artist: Reginald Marsh (American, Paris 1898–1954 Dorset, Vermont) Date: 1935. Medium: Etching and engraving. Dimensions: plate: 9 x 11 15/16 in. (22.9 x 30.4 cm) sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 7/16 in. (27 x 36.7 cm) Classification: Prints. Credit Line: Gift of The Honorable William Benton, 1959.
Reginald Marsh; Coney Island Beach, 1934 Reginald Marsh; Rue St. Jacques, Paris, 1928 Reginald Marsh; Knights of the Road, 1936 Reginald Marsh; Tattoo-Shave-Haircut, 1932 Reginald Marsh; Summer in New York, 1938 Reginald Marsh; Railroad Yards with New York Skyline, 1932 Reginald Marsh; New York, 1932 Reginald Marsh; Taxi Dance Hall, 1952 ...
Reginald Marsh. French American painter Reginald Marsh conveyed the frenzy of twentieth-century urban life in his renderings of New York City’s Coney Island, subways, and ship harbors, plus marginalized groups such as women and those experiencing homelessness. He is regarded as an American Scene painter, one of a number of American artists ...
