Pavonia—Jersey City
Framed: 26 1/4 x 36 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches (66.68 x 92.41 x 6.35 cm)
Early Paintings by Reginald Marsh, Frank K. M. Rehn Gallery, New York, November 25–December 31, 1974, no cat.
Second Williams College Alumni Loan Exhibition in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Williams College Museum of Art and in Honor of President John W. Chandler and Professor S. Lane Faison Jr., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., April 1–June 13, 1976 (traveled), unnumbered (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
Art in the Age of Steam: Europe, America and the Railway: 1830-1960, Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, United Kingdom, April 18–August 10, 2008; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 13, 2008–January 18, 2009.
Born in Paris, Marsh began his career in magazine illustration and worked among the initial staff of The New Yorker. A train enthusiast, the painter often crossed the Hudson River from his Manhattan studio to Jersey City, which had served as a transportation hub since the 19th century.
to (Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, 1974);
to Robert Simpson, Pa., by 1976;
to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1981);
to Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Mich., 1981;
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Ross, Los Angeles, 1982;
to Steven Spielberg, Los Angeles, by gift;
to Amy Irving, Los Angeles, c. 1989;
to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1990);
to NAMA, 1990.
“Reginald Marsh,” Arts Magazine 49 (February 1975), 13 (as Street Scene).
Second Williams College Alumni Loan Exhibition in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Williams College Museum of Art and in Honor of President John W. Chandler and Professor S. Lane Faison Jr., exh. cat. (Williamstown, Mass.: Williams College, 1976), 20, 57 (as Street Scene—Twelfth Avenue).
Liz Seaton, “Nelson Acquires a Slice of City Life,” Kansas City Star, June 2, 1991, I1, I4 (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
Margaret C. Conrads, “American Realist Painting Enters Collection,” Calendar of Events (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art), June 1991, 1–2 (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 5–6, 155–56 (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 247 (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
James Walter Ellis, “The Fourteenth Street School,” Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2003, 109n99 (as Street Scene, Twelfth Avenue).
Norman Sasowsky, Catalogue of Reginald Marsh Paintings, ms, vol. 3, no. 28–17 (as Street Scene in Front of “Café Restaurant”).
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 22, 385-88 (repro.), 2: 163-64 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 177 (repro.).
