Reginald Marsh Tattoo And Haircut

First of two prints. Marshs paintings typically feature the citys marginalized depression era outcasts.

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Reginald marsh march 14 1898 july 3 1954 was an american painter born in paris most notable for his depictions of life in new york city in the 1920s and 1930s.

Reginald marsh tattoo and haircut. Egg tempera on masonite. Tattoo and haircut on the bowery tattoo parlors sketchy barber shops and shady characters hanging around an all night bowery mission are all part of painter reginald marshs tattoo and haircut completed in 1932. The urban spectacle of reginald marsh.

Available for sale from the old print shop inc reginald marsh tattoo shave haircut. Rendered in marshs gently satirical style are several city types. Rejecting abstraction marsh included crowded coney island beach scenes vaudeville and burlesque shows women and jobless men on the bowery among his favorite subjects.

Born in paris reginald marsh was an american artist recognized for his social realist paintings of new york city life in the 1920s and 30s. Marsh became an avid photographer during the 1930s utilizing the medium as both an independent way of documenting what he saw and as a method to rapidly capture subjects for future paintings. Tattoo and haircut portrays a busy scene of people below the massive structure of the el on the bowery then an area notorious as a skid row.

Rejecting abstraction marsh included crowded coney island beach scenes vaudeville and burlesque shows women and jobless men on the bowery among his favorite subjects. He painted in egg tempera and in oils and. A derelict on crutches loitering men conversing or smoking cigarettes a chic woman walking by herself.

Marsh was fascinated by advertising and replicated it in many of his paintings. This photograph may have helped to inspire tattoo and haircut 1932 which features similar signs. Born in paris reginald marsh was an american artist recognized for his social realist paintings of new york city life in the 1920s and 30s.

Its yet another proscenium but a. 1934 as well as a remarkable etching tattoo shave haircut 1932 which reveals a phantasmagoric bowery barber shop dominated by a large sign but also dwarfed by grim girders of the el which figures frequently in the architecture of marshs street scenes. Reginald marsh 1898 1934 tattoo shave haircut etching 1932.

Crowded coney island beach scenes popular entertainments such as vaudeville and burlesque women and jobless men on the bowery are subjects that reappear throughout his work. Of the foremost realists of the 1930s reginald marsh was fascinated by public behavior and the exciting commotion of new york. 1932 etching and engraving 9 78 9 1316 in.

Signed titled tattoo haircut shave dedicated for arnold newman and annotated fourth state. 1181 x 1216 cm 46 12 x 47 78 in collection of the art institute of chicago. Reginald marsh tattoo and haircut 1932.

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