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Reginald Marsh Study of Seated Woman 1925 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Reginald Marsh The El ca. 1928 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Reginald Marsh Courtship 1932 lithograph Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Star Burlesk 1933 etching Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Subway: Three People 1934 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Coney Island Beach ca. 1930-38 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Coney Island Beach 1934 etching Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Gene Pyle Reginald Marsh (standing, left) sketching on Beach at Coney Island ca. 1930-38 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Gene Pyle Reginald Marsh sketching on Carousel at Coney Island ca. 1930-38 gelatin silver print Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Coney Island Carousel Carriage ca. 1930-38 gelatin silver print Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Cover of The New Yorker - Circus Scene 1935 offset print (after original painting) Archives of American Art, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Twenty-Cent Movie 1936 oil and ink on board Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Reginald Marsh Battery Belle 1938 etching Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
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Reginald Marsh Zayda in Subway ca. 1940 drawing Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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Reginald Marsh Untitled (New York) ca. 1940 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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Reginald Marsh Madrid before 1954 watercolor on paper Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC |
from Trees Listening to Bach
Wonders who'll itemize? Why, the jade tree,
Budding collector grown
Roundshouldered from its decade in the shade,
A shut-in life. Though short on fun,
It takes note, missing none.
Some nine score pitch-pure, stone-smooth lobes
Store the Courante, the Sarabande's grave strobes.
Exact dynamics are its law,
And juicy, time-consuming pedantry
Its lesson. Fluke or flaw,
Dust in a groove, temptation to emote
And blot performance leaving it unswayed,
Its roc's claw grips a base that creeps clockwise.
– James Merrill (1985)