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        "tombstone": "Coney Island Beach, 1934. Reginald Marsh (American, born France, 1898\u20131954). Etching; platemark: 24.7 x 24.7 cm (9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.); sheet: 33 x 40.4 cm (13 x 15 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp Jr., 1993.186. \u00a9 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New   \r\n    York",
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        "title": "Coney Island Beach",
        "creation_date": "1934",
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        "department": "Prints",
        "collection": "PR - Etching",
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        "measurements": "Platemark: 24.7 x 24.7 cm (9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.); Sheet: 33 x 40.4 cm (13 x 15 7/8 in.)",
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        "copyright": "\u00a9 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New   \r\n    York",
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 381923,
                    "title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
                    "description": "<i>Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-07-17T04:00:00"
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        "did_you_know": "Coney Island, located on an Atlantic Ocean beach in the borough of Brooklyn, became a resort for urban inhabitants in 1875, when the railroad opened regular service to the outer borough.",
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        "description": "No corner of New York City escaped Reginald Marsh\u2019s observation, but his favorite subject was the beach of Coney Island, where, he said, \u201ca million near-naked bodies could be seen at once, a phenomenon unparalleled in history.\u201d The human pyramids in both of these compositions imply ample physical touching, and, indeed, critics described Marsh\u2019s beach crowds as \u201cvulgar, sweating, bestial.\u201d The toppled pyramids and twisting forms recall Renaissance paintings, such as Michelangelo\u2019s Battle of Cascina from 1504. Unlike Michelangelo, however, Marsh tended to focus on the buxom siren or femme fatale, a trope of Hollywood cinema in the 1930s.",
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            {
                "citation": "\u201c1993 Annual Report.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143\u2013218.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 166",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457"
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        "catalogue_raisonne": "Sasowsky 153",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Charlotte Trenkamp in memory of Henry Trenkamp Jr.",
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        "accession_date": "1993-12-06T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:45.699000"
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