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Period: 1930s
Artist: Reginald Marsh
Minsky's New Gotham Chorus
Located in New York, NY
This is an engraving by Reginald Marsh of a group of performers.
1936/1969
15 x 13.5 inches
Engraving (Edition of 100)
Category
Contemporary 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
Star Burlesk
Located in New York, NY
This is an engraving by Reginald Marsh offered by CLAMP, New York.
Star Burlesk
1933/1969
Engraving (Edition of 100)
15 x 13.5 inches
Category
Contemporary 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
'A Morning in May' — 1930s Social Realism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'A Morning in May', etching, 1936, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 169. Unsigned as published; numbered '89/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, ...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
'Locomotives Watering' — 1930s Social Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'Erie R.R. Locos Watering (Locomotives Watering)', etching, 1934, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 155. Unsigned as published; numbered '68/100' in pencil. A su...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
"Tugboat at Dock, " Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh
Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937
Signed lower right
Watercolor and pencil on paper
13 3/4 x 20 inches
Housed in a Lowy frame.
Provenance:
Sotheby'...
Category
Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Railroad, 1932, Reginald Marsh, Train, Lithograph, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Located in Wiscasset, ME
An urban realist painter, Marsh was born in Paris, France and began drawing as early as the age of three. His artistic studies were done at Yale University, the Art Student League in New York and in Paris. Marsh was a member of the National Academy, the Royal Society of Artists, London, the Southern Vermont Artists...
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gaeiety Burlesk
Located in New York, NY
Gaeiety Burlesk
1930/1969
Engraving (Edition of 100)
15 x 13.5 inches, sheet
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Category
Contemporary 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
Grand Tier and the Met
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Grand Tier at the Met
Etching, 1939
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etchings and Engravings
Published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969
Unsigned (as usu...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Gaiety Burlesk
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Gaiety Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition); Numbered in pencil lower left; Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
Edition: 114, regular ed...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
SUBWAY - THREE PEOPLE
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. SUBWAY - THREE PEOPLE. S. 149. Etching, 1934. 9 x 7 inches; 228 x 178 mm. Numbered "10b," and signed in pencil "Reginald Marsh (F.M.)" b...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching
"Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh "Manhattan Bridge" NYC American Scene Modernism Watercolor WPA Urban Realism, 20 x 14 inches. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1938. Signed...
Category
American Modern 1930s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
The "Cannonball", Locomotive Watercolor by Reginald Marsh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Marsh, American (1898 - 1954)
Title: The "Cannonball"
Year: 1936
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed, titled, and dated l.r.
Size: 16.5 in. x 22.5 in. (41.91 cm x 57...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Barker
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Barker
Etching, 1931
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etc...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Irving Place Burlesk
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irving Place Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
THE BOWERY - UPRIGHT
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. THE BOWERY - UPRIGHT. S.26. Lithograph, 1932. Edition of 21, signed and numbered 3/21 in pencil. 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, 241 x 184 mm (image), Chine colle to a sheet 1...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Lithograph
DISCUSSION or AT THE BASE OF UNION SQ. WASH STATUE.
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. DISCUSSION or AT THE BASE OF UNION SQ. WASH
STATUE. Sasowsky 152. Etching, 1934. Signed in pencil. There was
no edition; the number printed is unknown, but likely o...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Fan Dance at Jimmy Kelly’s
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Fan Dance at Jimmy Kelly’s, etching, 1936, signed and inscribed 50 proofs (only 24 known printed) [also with the initials and da...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, Cityscape Watercolor by Reginald Marsh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Marsh, American (1898 - 1954)
Title: Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan II
Year: 1938
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.5...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Locomotive, Train Watercolor by Reginald Marsh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reginald Marsh, American (1898 - 1954)
Title: Locomotive
Year: 1932
Medium: Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Erie RR and Factories
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Erie RR and Factories, etching and engraving, 1930, signed in pencil lower right and numbered (10) lower left [also signed and dated in the plate]. Refere...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Engraving, Etching
Coney Island Beach #1
Located in Storrs, CT
Coney Island Beach #1. 1939. Engraving. Sasowsky catalog 191 state ii. 9 3/4 x 12 (sheet 11 1/2 x 13 7/8). Edition of 17-lifetime impressions printed by Marsh in 1939 as noted by Sas...
Category
Ashcan School 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
Merry-Go-Round
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Merry-Go-Round, etching and engraving, 1938, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed Forty Proofs lower left, [also signed in the plate lower left and inscribed SC]. Reference: Sasowsky 179, fourth state (of 4). In good condition, with margins (a paper loss upper right corner well outside of the platemark, stains from prior hinging, notations in pencil lower margin edge). 10 x 8, the sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches.
A very good impression, printed in black on a wove paper with a partial FRANCE watermark.
Sasowsky notes that Marsh printed 15 impressions of this state (and only one or two of the prior states), and considered only 10 of the 15 valuable. His notation “Forty Proofs” is therefore surely an expression of a hoped-for edition size, as opposed to an actual edition size. We have found this quite often the case with Marsh prints – he indicates an edition size but the actual number of impressions printed is considerably smaller.
There is an eerie, almost ominous note in this, as in several of Marsh’s merry-go-round prints...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
East Tenth Street Jungle
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), East Tenth Street Jungle, 1934, etching, signed and annotated “Second Proof, First State”, in pencil [also initialed and dated in the plate]. Reference: S...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Flying Concellos
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Flying Concellos, etching, 1936, signed in pencil lower right and annotated “40 Proofs” lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 163, fourth state (of 4). In excel...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
OPERA BOX
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. OPERA BOX. EnGraving, 1936 (Sasowsky 162).
6 7/8" x 4 15/16."
Signed in pencil.
First state proof, before added shading and modeling (Sas...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Skyline from Pier 10, Brooklyn
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Skyline from Pier 10, Brooklyn, etching, 1931, signed in pencil [also signed in the plate]. Reference: Sasowsky 129. First state (of 4). In very good cond...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Jersey City Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1896-1954), Jersey City Landscape, etching and engraving, 1939, signed in pencil lower right [also signed and dated in the plate]. Referenc...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Merry-Go-Round, 1930
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Merry-Go-Round, etching, 1930, signed in pencil lower right and numbered "24" lower left. In very good condition, with margins (cut irregularly,...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Pennsylvania Rail Road Loco Waiting to be Junked
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1896-1954), Pennsylvania Rail Road Loco Waiting to be Junked, 1932, etching, signed in pencil lower right and numbered “12” lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 130, fift...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Opera Box
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Opera Box, 1936, engraving, signed, numbered and annotated in pencil (State II 4/5, “to Dolsy and Eddie”); one of only 11 proofs....
Category
Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Engraving
Tatoo-Shave-Haircut
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1934), Tattoo-Shave-Haircut, etching, 1932. Signed, titled (“Tattoo-Haircut-Shave”), dedicated (“for Arnold Newman”), and annotated (“Fourth State. First of Two Prints”). Reference: Sasowsky 140. On cream wove paper. In very good condition, with small margins (as trimmed, slightly irregularly, by the artist) (slight foxing in margins), remains of prior hinging verso; 9 7/8 x 9 3/4, the sheet 10 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches; archival matting.
A very fine rich black impression; we have not seen impressions of comparable quality on the market.
Provenance: Estate of Arnold Newman. Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was one of the great 20th Century masters of photography, and a friend of many leading artists; it is appears that Marsh took special care in printing this impression for Newman.
Sasowsky calls for 10 states of Tattoo-Shave, based largely on Marsh’s notes. But the states are not clearly delineated (e.g., his States 3 and 4, one proof each, are characterized by Marsh as “Engraving added”; no information is given for State 5). The design for the print was complete in the first state, and subsequent state changes were not, apparently, major.
This impression does not appear to differ in etching lines from the final state impression shown in Sasowsky. Its inscription (as a Fourth State, by Marsh), as well as its rich inking and quality, attest to its being a proof before the edition (of about 34 impressions), but the state of this print (and, presumably of many of the other several proof impressions) cannot at this time be stated with confidence.
Marsh printed this impression personally (we recall his famous answer to a question about the size of his editions: “Since I do practically all my own printing, I do not limit the edition. The buyer limits the edition – he rarely buys, I rarely print”).
Tattoo-Shave-Haircut depicts a scene in the Bowery, a section of New York’s Lower East Side, during the Great Depression. The building and train structures in the top half of the print recall Piranesi’s Carceri...
Category
American Realist 1930s Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
Figurative drawing of a woman in a dress.
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Ink
FAN DANCE AT JIMMY KELLY'S
Located in Portland, ME
Marsh, Reginald. FAN DANCE AT JIMMY KELLY"S. S.161. Etching, 1936. Inscribed "Fifty Proofs" (only 20 were printed) and signed in pencil, and also initialed ...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Etching