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"tombstone": "1931 Coupe, 1931. Reginald Marsh (American, born France, 1898\u20131954). Watercolor over graphite; sheet: 35.4 x 50.7 cm (13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh, 1979.66. \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 in black ink: Reginald Marsh 1931; estate stamp in red ink, lower right: F. Marsh Collection / cat# wc 31-17 [inventory number is written in graphite]; verso, lower right, in graphite: wc 31-17\r\n",
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"id": 304412,
"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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"title": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).",
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"id": 313809,
"title": "Life is a Highway: American Car Culture",
"description": "Life is a Highway: American Car Culture. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (organizer) (June 15-September 15, 2019).",
"opening_date": "2019-06-15T04:00:00"
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"description": "Felicia Meyer Marsh [1912-1978] (artist's wife, through Norman Sasowsky), given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "Marsh had a long-standing interest in transportation, seen throughout even his childhood drawings.",
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"description": "Although he was best known for depictions of New York City, Reginald Marsh also had a lasting interest in transportation and industry, including trains, bridges, and factories. In many of these works, he focused on the dominating physical presence of machines. This drawing depicts a luxury car\u2014a custom-bodied Model G close-coupled sports coupe made by the elite auto maker duPont. Fewer than 600 of the cars were made. Marsh worked in watercolor but used a drier brush to paint the car's tires so that the white of the paper shows through in tiny spots and contrasts with the smoothly painted metal elements. Made at the height of the Great Depression, a time during which many specialized auto manufacturers went out of business, the artist may have intended to suggest the demise of such extravagances.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"The Year in Review for 1979.\" Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (March 1980): 58-97.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 97, no 74",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 256-257, p. 297; Reproduced: p. 257",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:00.052000"
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