Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh
Study of Seated Woman
1925
drawing
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Reginald Marsh
The El
ca. 1928
oil on canvas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Reginald Marsh
Courtship
1932
lithograph
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Star Burlesk
1933
etching
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Subway: Three People
1934
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Coney Island Beach
ca. 1930-38
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Coney Island Beach
1934
etching
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Gene Pyle
Reginald Marsh (standing, left) sketching on Beach at Coney Island
ca. 1930-38
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Gene Pyle
Reginald Marsh sketching on Carousel at Coney Island
ca. 1930-38
gelatin silver print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Coney Island Carousel Carriage
ca. 1930-38
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Cover of The New Yorker - Circus Scene
1935
offset print
(after original painting)
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Twenty-Cent Movie
1936
oil and ink on board
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Reginald Marsh
Battery Belle
1938
etching
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Reginald Marsh
Zayda in Subway
ca. 1940
drawing
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Reginald Marsh
Untitled (New York)
ca. 1940
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago
 
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)