| Reginald Marsh | ||
| Birth Date: March 14, 1898 |
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| Death Date: July 3, 1954 Artist Gallery |
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| Reginald Marsh was born to two American painters, Alice Randall and Frederick Dana Marsh, on March 14, 1898 in Paris, France. He was brought to this country in 1900. Although his father’s works commonly depicted skyscrapers and other buildings, Reginald Marsh was much more concerned with the people that inhabited these structures, as he was a lifelong student of the human anatomy.
Marsh studied art at Yale and graduated in 1920. He began his career as an illustrator for many popular magazines and newspapers. In November of 1924, he was given his first one-man show in the Whitney Studio Club. From this time on, Marsh’s favorite painting medium changed from oil to egg tempera, watercolor, and Chinese ink as his career developed.
A devoted educator, Marsh taught at the Art Students League, Mills College, and served as head of the Department of Painting at the Moore Institute of Art in Philadelphia. He married twice: first to Betty Burroughs, a sculptor, and then to Felicia Meyer, a painter.
Marsh was preoccupied with the human form throughout his career. He died at age fifty-six in 1954 after being appointed as the art editor for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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