This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Reginald Marsh was born in Paris, France in 1898, the child of artist
parents. He was born over a small cafe on Paris' Left Bank. He was
brought to the United States in 1900 and was drawing before he was
three. He studied art at Yale University and the Art Students League,
during which time he worked primarily as an illustrator for New York
newspapers and magazines. After studying in Paris in 1925 and 1926, he
turned seriously to painting. In 1929 he was introduced to the
egg-tempera medium, which he used extensively the rest of his life.
Marsh's
gusto for painting the bottom crust of society contrasted curiously
with his background. His parents, both well-known artists, were steeped
in academic traditions. He attended Lawrenceville Academy and Yale;
perhaps this elite background made it possible to paint the earthy
people he did with a journalist's objectivity.
An admirer of
Rubens and Delacroix, he disliked modernist art; indeed, his lifelong
preoccupation was with people - enjoying themselves at beaches, at
amusement parks, or on crowded city streets. Marsh was a
second-generation Ash Can School painter and printmaker, best known as
an urban regionalist. He spent his days sketching in small notebooks
with a pen.
He died in 1954 of a heart attack.
Written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher from Laguna Woods, California.
Sources include:
Dictionary of American Art by Matthew Baigell, published by Harper and Row, 1979
Time magazine, November 7, 1955
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  An urban realist painter of New York City genre, Reginald Marsh devoted
his career to depicting people going about their everyday business
including Bowery bums, vulgar party goers, and persons elbowing their
way in crowded subways. He was also a printmaker, completing about 236
etchings, lithographs, and engravings, and devoted much time,
especially in the 1930s, to 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
free-lance illustrator in New York City for the Daily News and The
New Yorker and studied at the Art Students League.
He was
much 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 1930s,
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.
Source:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
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Biography from ACME Fine Art:
|  Reginald Marsh
1898-1954
Education:
Yale University (A.B.)
Art Students League
and with John Sloan and George Luks
Selected Exhibitions:
Salons of America, 1925,’31-’32,’34
Society of Independent Artists, 1939
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1932-‘57(gold medal ’45)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1932-‘52
National Academy of Design, 1937(prize)
Art Institute of Chicago, 1931
Whitney Studio Club, 1924,’28
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1955(solo)
Selected Collections:
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Museum of American Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
National Academy of Design
Addison Museum of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Wadsworth Atheneum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Fogg Art Museum
Williams College Museum of Art
Norton Museum of Art
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Biography from The Caldwell Gallery - I:
| Reginald Marsh was a contemporary artist who was an instrumental art
figure in the Depression Era of New York City. He studied at
Yale, the Art Students League and Paris, and later learned an egg
tempera and emulsion technique when he studied with Jacques Maroger
from 1940-46.
He painted scenes of amusement parks, crowded subways, vaudeville and
night clubs as well as the busy harbors and railroad stations of New
York.
Marsh worked as a staff artist for the New York Daily News from 1922-25 and continued to be a contributing artist/writer for national magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper's Bazaar.
His retrospective was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in
1955. Marsh was also a professor at the Art Students League from
1935-54.
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