id: 164628 accession number: 2006.137 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.137 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:00.080000 A Paramount Picture, 1934. Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954). Tempera on Masonite; framed: 107.3 x 86.4 x 4.5 cm (42 1/4 x 34 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 90.8 x 70.5 cm (35 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2006.137 © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: A Paramount Picture title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1934 creation date earliest: 1934 creation date latest: 1934 current location: 226B American Modern creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: © Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: tempera on Masonite department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Reginald Marsh (American, 1898–1954) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 107.3 x 86.4 x 4.5 cm (42 1/4 x 34 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 90.8 x 70.5 cm (35 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York opening date: 2013-06-21T00:00:00 Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York. New-York Historical Society, New York, NY (organizer) (June 21-September 2, 2013). title: Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession opening date: 2023-04-01T04:00:00 Egyptomania: Fashion's Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'New-York Historical Society (6/21/2013 - 9/2/2013): "Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York"', 'opening_date': '2013-06-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Senator William Benton; Marjorie and Charles Benton, Wilmette, IL date: By 1973 footnotes: citations: Merrill C. Berman, New York, NY date: By 1996 footnotes: citations: (D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. New York, NY sold to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: By 2002 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2006- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lant, Antonia, "The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania," October 59 (Winter 1992).
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Evanston: Terra Museum of American Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 13,15 url: Cohen, Marilyn. Reginald Marsh’s New York: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Photographs. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1983. page number: Mentioned: p. 52; Reproduced: inside front cover url: Doss, Erika. “Images of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture.” Woman’s Art Journal 4 (Fall/Winter 1983). page number: Mentioned: p. 1,3 url: “Spellbound in Darkness.” In Hollywood: Legend and Reality, reproduction 17. Michael Webb, ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, in association with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986. page number: Mentioned: p. 17 url: Cohen, Marilyn Ann. “Reginald Marsh: An Interpretation of His Art.” PhD. Diss., New York University, 1987. page number: Mentioned: p. 73,92,182 url: Todd, Ellen Wiley. “Sex for Sale: Reginald Marsh’s Voluptuous Shopper.” In The ‘New Woman’ Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. page number: Mentioned: p. 200, 211-217,355-358 url: Berman, Avis. “Reginald Marsh: Eros and the City.” In Reginald Marsh’s New York. New York: D C Moore Gallery, 1996. page number: Mentioned: p. 1, 6-7 url: Charney, Leo. “In Order: Fragmentation in Film and Vaudeville.” In On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art, 107-123. Robert C. Allen, C. Lance Brockman, Leo Charney, Walter Murch, David Nasaw, Robert Silberman, Laural Weintraub, Sylvia Yount, and Rebecca Zurier. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. page number: Reproduced: p. 118 url: “Highlights from the Collection.” In D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. catalog, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 22 url: Litt, Steven. “Museum buys Marsh’s ‘Paramount’.” Plain Dealer, September 14, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. F1, F4 url: Cole, Mark, "A Paramount Picture", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 01, January 2007 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2007-01/page/8 “Acquisitions.” The Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report July 1, 2006- June 30, 2007. page number: Mentioned: p. 25 url: https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/atoztitles/link?rft.issn=1922-2009 Cole, Mark. “Objects of Desire: Collecting American Paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” In What’s American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Henry Adams. Manchester: the Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 13; Reproduced: p. 11 url: Adams, Henry. What’s American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Manchester: The Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2008. page number: Mentioned: p. 134-135 url: Cole, Mark. “A Picture Finds Its Frame.” Cleveland Art 50 no. 4 (July/August 2010). page number: Mentioned: p. 26-27 url: Franklin, David. “Recent Acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1312 (July 2012). page number: Mentioned: p. 532 url: Bronfen, Elisabeth. “Auf der Suche nach Kleopatra: Das Nachleben einer kulturellen Ikone.” In Kleopatra: Die Ewige Diva. Italy: Alle Rechte vorbehalten, in association with Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle de Bundespreublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2013. page number: Mentioned: p. 8,18 url: Russeth, Andrew. “’Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York’ at the New-York Historical Society.” Gallerist NY, June 25, 2013. page number: url: Russeth, Andrew. “’Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York’ at the New-York Historical Society.” Observer, June 25, 2013. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014. page number: Mentioned: p. 58 url: Doss, Erika. “Paramount Pictures: Reginald Marsh and the Image of the American Woman in the 1930s.” American Studies Exchange (Fall 1982). page number: Mentioned: p. 3-12 url: Bovot, Jean-Luc. "Le Cinéma Égyptisant À l'Époque de l'Art Déco." In Art déco: Égyptomanie, edited by Jean-Marcel Humbert, 167-179. 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