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Painter:
Marsh, Reginald 1898-1954  Search this
Medium:
Egg tempera on composition board
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Broad & Cherry Streets Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19102 Accession Number: 1942.7
Date:
1936
Notes:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-2005: 200 Years of Excellence," Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005, pg. 234.
"Reginald Marsh," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1955, no. 21.
"Reginald Marsh (1898-1954): Urban Realist, Master of Many Media," New York, NY: D. Wigmore Fine Art, 2008, pg. 40.
Summary:
Crowded city street scene with muscled workers in the foreground digging up the street with jackhammers and pickaxes, while in the background members of a union walk a picket line in front of Ohrbachs store.
Topic:
Cityscape--Street  Search this
Figure group  Search this
Occupation--Labor  Search this
Architecture--Machine  Search this
Object--Tool--Axe  Search this
Control number:
IAP 46120958
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_379228