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REGINALD MARSH N.Y. Skyline.
Etching and engraving, 1936. 150x380 mm; 5 7/8x15 inches, full margins. Eleventh state (of 11). Edition of fewer than two hundred. Signed and annotated in pencil, lower right. A very good impression.
Born in Paris, the second son in a well-to-do family (Marsh's parents were artists themselves and his paternal grandfather had made a fortune in the meatpacking business), Marsh (1898-1954) attended Yale University and on graduating moved to New York where, during the early 1920s, he worked as an illustrator and took classes at the Art Students League. Marsh was equally influenced by his art teachers in New York, notably John Sloan, as well as American Regionalists like Thomas Hart Benton and old masters such as Rubens, Titian and Tintoretto. He wholly rejected the modern artistic movements gaining strength in America at the time, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction, and instead pursued a style that is best summed up as social realism: depictions of everyday life in New York, Coney Island beach scenes, vaudeville and burlesque women, the jobless on the streets of New York and the railroad yards and freight trains in New York and New Jersey.
Marsh made over 200 etchings and engravings from the late 1920s to the early 1950s as well as approximately 30 lithographs. Sasowsky 167.
