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"tombstone": "Locomotives Watering, 1932. Reginald Marsh (American, born France, 1898\u20131954). Oil and tempera on panel; unframed: 61 x 91.4 cm (24 x 36 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh, 1979.64. \u00a9 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New \r\n York",
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"title": "Locomotives Watering",
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"measurements": "Unframed: 61 x 91.4 cm (24 x 36 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New \r\n York",
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"inscription": "signed lower right: REGINALD MARSH 1932",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1979",
"description": "Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).",
"opening_date": "1980-02-13T05:00:00"
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"id": 227084,
"title": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]",
"description": "Made in U.S.A., l'art am\u00e9ricain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Mus\u00e9e Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).",
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"description": "New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Reginald Marsh (21 September - 6 November 1955); traveled to The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (27 November - 25 December 1955); traveled to Detroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts (13 January - 12 February 1956); traveled to St. Louis, MO, City Art Museum of St. Louis (2 March - 1 April 1956); traveled to Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (15 April - 20 May 1956); traveled to Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum (10 June - 8 July 1956); traveled to Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (25 July - 26 August 1956); traveled to San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Museum of Art (13 September - 14 October 1956); exhibition catalogue, cat. no. 7, reproduced on unnumbered page; painting was lent to the exhibition by Marsh's wife.",
"opening_date": "1955-09-21T00:00:00"
},
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"description": "Newport Beach, CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Reginald Marsh: A Retrospective Exhibition (2 November - 10 December 1972); traveled to Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center (8 January - 18 February 1973); traveled to Fort Worth, TX, Fort Worth Art Center Museum (27 February - 1 April 1973); traveled to Austin, TX, University of Texas at Austin Art Museum (15 April - 31 May 1973); exhibition catalogue, cat. no. 13.",
"opening_date": "1972-11-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Reginald Marsh: Selections from the Felicia Meyer Marsh Bequest (13 June - 26 August 1979); traveled to Philadelphia, PA, Moore College of Art (7 - 29 September 1979); not reproduced.",
"opening_date": "1979-06-13T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review 1979 (1980), no cat; see Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art.",
"opening_date": "1980-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Musum of Art, American Realism and the Industrial Age (12 December 1980 - 18 January 1981); traveled to Lakewood, OH, Beck Center for the Cultural Arts (18 February - 15 March 1981); traveled to Columbus, OH, Columbus Museum of Art (11 April - 31 May 1981); in catalogue, Doezema discusses Marsh and the Fourteenth Street School's depictions of life and industry in New York City. Special attention is paid to Marsh's WPA-FAP shipping murals in NYC's Customs House. Locomotives Watering is reproduced and used to illustrate Marsh's fascination with commercial activities and \"the city at work\"; pp. 115-21, ill. no. 41 on p. 116.",
"opening_date": "1981-02-18T00:00:00"
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"description": "Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japanese Artists Who Studied in U.S.A. and the American Scene (24 July - 5 September 1982); traveled to Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (14 September - 11 October 1982); cat. no. 92, p. 115.",
"opening_date": "1982-07-24T00:00:00"
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"description": "Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Hand of Man: Images of the Industrial Age (31 March - 28 June 1987).",
"opening_date": "1987-03-31T00:00:00"
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"description": "Bordeaux, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Made in USA: L'art Am\u00e9rican, 1908-1947 (10 October-31 December 2001); traveled to Rennes, Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts (18 January-31 March 2002); Montpellier, Mus\u00e9e Fabre (12 April-23 June 2002); cat. not numbered, illus. p. 186.",
"opening_date": "2001-10-10T00:00:00"
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"description": "Felicia Meyer Marsh [1912\u20131978], New York, NY, the artist's widow",
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"did_you_know": "Reginald Marsh despised abstract art, describing it as \"high and pure and sterile\u2014no sex, no drinks, no muscles.\"",
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"description": "The title of Reginald Marsh\u2019s painting refers to the process of refilling the water supply for a steam locomotive, a task taking place at left. Fascinated by trains and their attendant activities, the artist made sketches for this scene at the Erie Railroad yard in Jersey City, NJ.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:00.040000"
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