Train
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The urban realist Reginald Marsh depicted modern New York life—burlesque theaters, crowded subways, popular beaches—in a variety of media. Watercolor allowed him to work quickly, a manner that he had developed as a newspaper and magazine illustrator. In this picture, Marsh used both dry and wet washes: note how he blurred the outline of the locomotive by letting wet paints bleed into each other in order to convey the sense of the train’s velocity as it speeds through the landscape.
Caption
Reginald Marsh American, 1898–1954. Train, 1930. Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream, thick, moderately textured wove paper, 13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in. (35.4 x 50.6 cm) Frame: 24 x 30 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Felicia Meyer Marsh, 79.85.1. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 79.85.1.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Train
Date
1930
Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite on cream, thick, moderately textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in. (35.4 x 50.6 cm) Frame: 24 x 30 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "R. MARSH 1930"
Inscriptions
On verso, lower right: stamped in red ink "F. MARSH COLLECTION / CAT." and inscribed in pencil "wc 30-22"
Credit Line
Gift of the Estate of Felicia Meyer Marsh
Accession Number
79.85.1
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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