Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh, March 14, 1898–July 3, 1954, was an American painter and printmaker born in Paris to American artist parents. He graduated from Yale University in 1920 and studied at the Art Students League of New York, where his teachers included John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller.
Marsh worked as a newspaper and magazine illustrator before establishing his painting career. Associated with the Fourteenth Street School, he depicted New York streets, public transportation, burlesque theaters, and Coney Island in oils, tempera, watercolors, drawings, and prints. He also completed federal mural commissions and began teaching at the Art Students League in 1935.
Marsh continued painting and teaching into the 1950s and died in Dorset, Vermont. His work is held by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
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