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REGINALD MARSH Window Shopping
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Reginald Marsh painted the hustle and bustle of city life; he found inspiration throughout New York City. Marsh received a traditional training as an artist at the Arts Students League under the tutelage of Kenneth Hayes Miller. Early in his career Marsh recorded crowds of New Yorkers in complex, multi-figure compositions. By 1939, when Window Shopping was painted, these jam-packed arrangements gave way to more deliberate works with fewer, but more monumental figures. 1939 and 1940 are Marsh's best years as an artist. Marsh disliked oil paint, preferring watercolor instead. He was a great draughtsman, one of the best working in the United States at the time. In his finest works, like Window Shopping, line and volume, not color, create the monumental aura of his subjects. |
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Ivan Le Lorraine Albright Robert Salmon |
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