Sep 16, 2010 - Sale 2221

Sale 2221 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
FREDERICK DANA MARSH
Pennsylvania R.R. N.Y. Foundations.

Watercolor on wove paper mounted to card stock, circa 1905. 176x319 mm; 6x12 inches, full margins. Initialed in pencil lower left recto, and signed and titled in pencil on the board back.

Father of renowned artist Reginald Marsh, Frederick Dana Marsh was born to a prosperous Chicago family in 1872. After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he married and moved to New York. Around the turn of the century, Marsh and his family settled in the artist colony at Nutley, New Jersey. During this time he created a series of murals entitled Allegories of Industry, for the New York Engineering Society Library.

Marsh also produced a number of terra cotta murals, Maritime History of the Hudson, for the Hotel McAlpin, located at the corner of Broadway and 34th Street, in Manhattan. The murals were relocated to the New York City transit system in 2000 when the building was converted into rental aprtments. As part of a preservation effort the murals were reassembled at the Broadway/Nassau Street Station on the A-line.