id: 149675
accession number: 1979.64
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.64
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Locomotives Watering, 1932. Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954). 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 © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
York
title: Locomotives Watering
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creation date: 1932
creation date earliest: 1932
creation date latest: 1932
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creditline: Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh
copyright: © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil and tempera on panel
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 61 x 91.4 cm (24 x 36 in.)
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inscription: signed lower right: REGINALD MARSH 1932
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1979
opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).
title: Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]
opening date: 2001-10-05T00:00:00
Made in U.S.A., l'art américain, 1908-1943, entre nationalisme et internationalisme [FRAME]. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, F-33000 Bordeaux, France (organizer) (October 5-December 31, 2001); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France (January 17-March 31, 2002); Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (April 10-June 25, 2002).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* 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.
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.
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.
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review 1979 (1980), no cat; see Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art.
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.
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.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Hand of Man: Images of the Industrial Age (31 March - 28 June 1987).
Bordeaux, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Made in USA: L'art Américan, 1908-1947 (10 October-31 December 2001); traveled to Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts (18 January-31 March 2002); Montpellier, Musée Fabre (12 April-23 June 2002); cat. not numbered, illus. p. 186.
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PROVENANCE
Artist's family, bequest of the artist's widow.
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