%C2%A9 Estate of Reginald Marsh %2F Art Students League%2C New York %2F Artists Rights Society %28ARS%29%2C New York
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Gift of Ruth and Bruce Daytonexpand_more P.97.28.1
Before television became a regular staple of American life, entertainment took the form of live performances, and included such theatrical presentations as the burlesque, a variety show that featured bawdy comedy and female striptease. Presented in small cabarets and theaters, burlesques and vaudeville acts were popular in America from the 1860s until the 1940s. A frequent subject of Reginald Marsh’s paintings and prints, the seedy, lower-class nature of burlesque held a special appeal for the Yale-educated artist. He once noted: “The whole thing is extremely pictorial. … You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt architecture of the place, plenty of humanity. Everything is nice and intimate.”
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