© Estate of Reginald Marsh %2F Art Students League%2C New York %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
New York Skyline with Bridge, 1932
Reginald Marshexpand_more
Watercolor on paperexpand_more
Bequest of Dr. John I. Coeexpand_more 2011.80.18
Not on Viewexpand_more
Painted plein air (directly from nature), this watercolor features one of Reginal Marsh's favorite perspectives on the burgeoning Manhattan skyline, the view from the East River waterfront in the borough of Brooklyn. Despite his interest in the growing modern metropolis, Marsh rejected the formal innovations of modern art, instead embracing long-standing artistic tradtions anchored in the great masters of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque. Indeed, his subjects—mostly figurative scenes of New York's lower and working classes—align him with the Social Realists, a loosely-knit group of activist American artists who used their art as a tool for social and political change.
Exhibitions
International Modernism: Art in a Fast-changing World
Saturday, September 19, 2015 - Saturday, December 31, 2016
Details
- Title
- New York Skyline with Bridge
- Artist Life
- (born France), 1898 - 1954
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2011.80.18
- Provenance
- (Rehn Gallery, New York, sold to Coe, 1960); John I. Coe, Edina, Minn, 1960-d. 2011); Estate of John I. Coe, New Brighton, Minn.; bequethed to MIA
- Curator Approved
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