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Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh

Artist

WA-00028359

PhotographySocial RealismRenaissance

Representation

None documented

19

Institutional Exhibitions

94

Works in Collection

104

Assets Indexed

2

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

100%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ7308806 ULAN500016727

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Views over America

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979

No image

Points of View

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1975

No image

American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

No image

The Artist as Adversary

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

No image

Manhattan Observed

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1968

No image

America Seen: Between The Wars

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1961

No image

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959–1960

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70 Photographers Look at New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957–1958

No image

Modern Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1944

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PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1940

No image

Painting, Sculpture, Prints

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1939

Field Verification (2 fields)

0 cross-verified · 2 single-source

BiographyGallery Generic· 72%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/reginald-marsh
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/reginald-marsh
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3784
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Reginald Marsh yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Social Realism

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (94)

Taxi Dance Hall

Taxi Dance Hall

1952 · China ink on cardboard, double-sided, one side varnished

45.7 × 60.9 cm (18 × 24 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1949 · Etching

Sheet: 13 1/8 × 10 in. (33.3 × 25.4 cm) Plate: 9 7/8 × 8 in. (25.1 × 20.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Coney Island Beach with Couples Embracing (recto); Couple Embracing on Coney Island Beach (verso)

Coney Island Beach with Couples Embracing (recto); Couple Embracing on Coney Island Beach (verso)

1947 · Brush and black and gray wash (recto and verso), on cream watercolor paper

66.5 × 101.1 cm (26 3/16 × 39 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Soldiers on Leave

1945 · Ink and watercolor on paper

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 12 11/16 in. (8.3 × 32.2 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Sailor and Girl in Central Park

1945 · watercolor, ink wash on wove paper

Image: 55.7 x 76.7 cm (21 15/16 x 30 3/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Two Experts, Tattoo

Two Experts, Tattoo

1944 · Brush and black and gray wash, with watercolor, over black crayon and graphite on off-white wove paper

57.8 × 78.7 cm (22 13/16 × 31 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Battery (Belles)

Battery (Belles)

1938 · Etching in black on cream wove paper

Image/plate: 22.6 × 30.5 cm (8 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 33.1 cm (10 9/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Summer in New York

Summer in New York

1938 · Watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

35.3 × 50.5 cm (13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Battery (Belles)

Battery (Belles)

1938 · Etching and engraving

plate: 8 3/4 x 11 15/16" (22.3 x 30.4 cm); sheet: 13 x 15 1/2" (33 x 39.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Knights of the Road

Knights of the Road

1936 · Watercolor, over graphite, on off-white wove paper

35.4 × 50.7 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Coney Island Beach

Coney Island Beach

1935 · Etching in black on ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 22.6 × 30.4 cm (8 15/16 × 12 in.); Sheet: 33.1 × 45.8 cm (13 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Mountain of Flesh

A Mountain of Flesh

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Milo the Mole Face Boy

Milo the Mole Face Boy

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.3 cm (5 1/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.7 × 18.4 cm (5 × 7 1/4 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 18.2 × 13 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 × 20.4 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.3 × 25.7 cm (8 × 10 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.7 × 18.5 cm (5 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 18.2 × 13 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Paper: 15.2 × 20.4 cm (6 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 18.2 × 13 cm (7 3/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Paper: 25.7 × 20.4 cm (10 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.7 × 18.5 cm (5 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1935 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio “Reginald Marsh: Photographs of New York” (1977)

Image: 12.8 × 18.5 cm (5 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.2 cm (8 1/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (5)

94 published of 101 catalogued · 81 with image

Art Institute Chicago
70 published70 img
MoMA
7 publishedof 14 catalogued11 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published
The Met
6 published
Whitney
5 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

A Paramount Picture
1934 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Tattoo and Haircut (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Tattoo and Haircut (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

7

Influence1

Roy Lichtensteininfluence

Movements2

Social Realism Renaissance

Collections4

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Network

Related Artists

Roy Lichtenstein