Reginald Marsh

Currently unavailable. The Gallery is interested in acquiring works by this artist.

Biography

(French/New York, b. 1898 - d. 1954)

An urban realist painter of New York City genre, Reginald Marsh devoted, his career to depicting people going about their every day business including Bowery bums, vulgar party goers, and persons elbowing their way through crowded subways. He was also a printmaker, completing about 236 etchings, lithographs 

and engravings, and devoted much time especially during the 1930's, printmaking. Many of his paintings were done in watercolor and egg tempera.

He was born in Paris to American-born artist parents, Fred Dana and Alice Randall Marsh. His family settled in Nutley, New Jersey in 1900 and later in New Rochelle, New York. After graduating from Yale University, he worked as a freelance illustrator in New York City for the Daily News and The New Yorker and Studied at the Art Student's League.

He was greatly influenced by urban realists John Sloan, George Luks and Kenneth Hayes Miller. He went briefly to Europe and then returned to New York to pursue his sympathetic depiction of low-life subjects.  

In the 1930's, he did murals for the W.P.A., and in 1943, he was elected a full academician to the National Academy of Design.

Reginald Marsh died in Dorset, Vermont in 1954.

works sold