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People's Follies No. 3
193825 7/8 x 39 in. (65.7 x 99.1 cm)
Reginald Marsh
United States (Paris, France, 1898 - 1954, Dorset, VT)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Egg tempera on composition board
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1943.1
Location: Currently on view
Reginald Marsh inherited the Urban Realist interest in the act of seeing and being seen. His art often addressed sexuality in the urban environment, as in this painting of a burlesque hall.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: Reginald/Marsh 1938
Provenance
Artist; Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc., New York; purchased from them by the Gallery in 1943 out of the Lending Library of American Art
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- Yesterday and Today: American Paintings of the Past Hundred Years Oswego Arts Center 6/4/1963 - 6/14/1963
- Selections from the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery Albany Institute of History & Art 11/15/1964 - 12/20/1964
- In Focus: A Look at Realism in Art 12/28/1964 - 1/31/1965
- Twentieth Century American Painting New York State Council on the Arts 9/1/1974 - 1/1/1975
- Twentieth Century American Masters The Art Center 1/14/1978 - 2/26/1978
- From the Permanent Collection- The Working American Memorial Art Gallery 3/8/1980 - 4/6/1980
- Through the Looking Glass 12/6/1980 - 1/25/1981
- Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute 10/13/1984 - 3/2/1986
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Scope: Reproduction only. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
- Article Title: Accessions of Modern American Paintings. Article Scope: Article. Memorial Art Gallery. Gallery Notes. Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995. Volume Number: 8, Issue Number: 3. Issue Date: January 1943.
- Rochester Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1961.
- Article Title: Rochester Riches. Article Scope: Article. Art Digest. New York, New York: Art Digest, Inc. Volume Number: 17, Issue Number: 7. Issue Date: January 1, 1943. Page Number: 16
- Article Scope: Entry. Twentieth Century American Masters. South Bend, IN: The Art Center, 1978.
- Article Author: Spees, Kathleen. Article Title: Reginald Marsh: People’s Follies No. 3, 1938; Ice Cream Cones. Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 236-239
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Seeing America Inservice
Materials from a teacher in-service presentation Spring 2008
Seeing America
Chapter on Reginald Marsh's paintings People’s Follies No. 3, and Ice Cream Cones, written by Kathleen Spies.