id: 149677 accession number: 1979.66 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.66 updated: 2023-08-23 22:38:32.068000 1931 Coupe, 1931. Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954). 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 © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: 1931 Coupe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1931 creation date earliest: 1931 creation date latest: 1931 current location: creditline: Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh copyright: © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Watercolor over graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 35.4 x 50.7 cm (13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: white wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: 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 translation: remark: --- 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: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 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). title: Life is a Highway: American Car Culture opening date: 2019-06-15T04:00:00 Life is a Highway: American Car Culture. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (organizer) (June 15-September 15, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Estate of the artist [1898-1954], New York, NY date: 1931-1954 footnotes: citations: Felicia Meyer Marsh [1912-1978] (artist's wife, through Norman Sasowsky), given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1954-1978 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Marsh had a long-standing interest in transportation, seen throughout even his childhood drawings. digital 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—a 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. wall description: This image of an empty automobile is unusual in the context of Marsh's work, because he is best known for his earthy images of crowds of ordinary people in their urban environment. It depicts a luxury car, a custom-bodied Model G close-coupled sports coupe made by the elite automaker duPont. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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 url: 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 url: --- IMAGES