Biografie von Reginald MARSH (1898-1954)

Birth place: Paris, France

Death place: Dorset, VT

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, graphic artist, teacher, illustrator, cartoonist, educator

Studied: Yale Univ. (A.B.); Paris, 1925-26; ASL, periodically, with Sloan, K.H. Miller, Geo. Luks; learned egg tempera and emulsion technique from Jacques Maroger, 1940-46.

Exhibited: Salons of Am., 1925, 1931-32, 1934; S. Indp. A., 1939; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1932-57 (11 times, incl. gold med., 1945); AIC, 1931 (Kohnstamm prize), 1940 (Watson Blair prize); PAFA annuals, 1932-52; NAD, 1937 (prize); Whitney Studio Club, 1924, 1928; most nat. exhibits of contemporary American artists since 1931; SC, 1945 (prize); 16 solo shows at Rehn Gal., NYC; WMAA, 1955 (retrospective); DC Moore gal., NYC, 1996 ("Reginald Marsh"s New York").

Member: NA; NIAL; Royal Soc. Artists, London; Southern Vermont Artists; Woodstock AA.

Work: MMA; WMAA; NMAA; AGAA; Univ. Nebraska: Springfield Mus.; PAFA; AIC; Hartford Atheneum; BMFA; WPA murals, USPO, Wash. DC; U.S. Customs House, NY.

Comments: An important figure of the Depression era in New York City, he is best known for capturing scenes of amusement parks, crowded subways, vaudeville, night clubs, and burlesque, as well as work activities in New York"s harbor and railroad yards. He was a staff artist for New York Daily News, 1922-25, and was a lifelong free-lance illustrator for the New Yorker; Esquire; also contributing work to Harper's Bazaar; Magazine of Art; and many other national magazines. After his divorce from sculptress Berry Burroughs (see entry) in 1933, he married painter Felicia Meyer (see entry), in 1934. Teaching: ASL, 1935-54; Moore Inst. Art, Sc. & Indst., Phila. Author: Anatomy of Artists, 1945; Round and Round Horse, 1943.

Sources: WW53; WW47; Baigell, Dictionary; Woodstock AA; Falk, Exh. Record Series.