Reginald Marsh (painter)

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Louis Bouche , Reginald Marsh and William Zorach , 1940

Reginald Marsh (born March 14, 1898 in Paris , † July 3, 1954 in Dorset , Vermont ) was an American painter of social realism ( New Objectivity ).

Life

Reginald Marsh's parents were the painters Alice Randall and Frederick Dana Marsh . He was a student and teacher at the Art Students League of New York . He was married to the painter Felicia Meyer Marsh for the second time .

Marsh is particularly known for paintings of the New York and Coney Islands of the 1930s and 1940s. His choice of topics was often shaped by sexuality and humor, including burlesque . He also took pictures in New York, his subjects included street scenes, Coney Island, beach scenes, the subway and the harbor.

Marsh died of a heart attack at the age of 56 .

Marsh's painting Two Dime cinema ( Twenty-Cent Movie , 1936) was among the 1,000 masterpieces presented.

In 2013, the New York Historical Society hosted the exhibition Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York , which was widely reviewed.

In 1946 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

student

Works (selection)

Sorting the Mail , 1936
Unloading the Mail , 1936

Fonts

  • Reginald Marsh: Anatomy for artists . Dover Publications, New York 1970, ISBN 0-486-22613-1 , pp. 209 (English).
  • Reginald Marsh: The dream woman . S. Fischer, Frankfurt 1977, DNB  780076184 , p. 149 (English: You're out of my mind! Translated by Sibylle Neff-Hunzinger).

literature

  • A. Wagner-Wilke: Marsh, Reginald . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 87, de Gruyter, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-023253-0 , p. 300 f.
  • Edward Laning: The sketchbooks of Reginald Marsh . New York Graphic Society, New York 1973, ISBN 0-8212-0538-2 , pp. 168 (English).
  • Norman Sasowsky: The prints of Reginald Marsh: an essay and definitive catalog of his linoleum cuts, etchings, engravings, and lithographs . CN Potter, New York 1976, ISBN 0-517-52493-7 , pp. 287 (English).
  • Marilyn Cohen: Reginald Marsh's New York: paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs . Dover Publications, New York 1983, ISBN 0-486-24594-2 , pp. 115 (English, exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art).
  • Kathleen Spies: Girls and Gags: Sexual Display and Humor in Reginald Marsh's Burlesque Images . In: American Art . Volume 18, No. 2 . University of Chicago Press, 2004, ISSN  1073-9300 , pp. 32-57 , doi : 10.1086 / 424789 (English).
  • Morris Dickstein and others: Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York . Ed .: Barbara Haskell, New-York Historical Society. Giles, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-907804-09-0 , pp. 176 (New-York Historical Society exhibition, June 21 - September 2, 2013).

Web links

Commons : Reginald Marsh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://antiquephotographics.com/marsh/ accessed November 20, 2015
  2. ↑ http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323823004578593570548149726 accessed November 20, 2015
  3. ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/art-review-swing-time-reginald-marsh-and-thirties-new-york/2013/08/15/1e7214fa-0071-11e3-96a8-d3b921c0924a_story .html accessed on November 20, 2015
  4. ^ Members: Reginald Marsh. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Marsh, Reginald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1954
Place of death Dorset