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"tombstone": "A Paramount Picture, 1934. Reginald Marsh (American, born France, 1898\u20131954). 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. \u00a9 Estate of Reginald Marsh / Art Students League, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "A Paramount Picture",
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"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.)",
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"id": 224514,
"title": "Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York",
"description": "Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York. New-York Historical Society, New York, NY (organizer) (June 21-September 2, 2013).",
"opening_date": "2013-06-21T00:00:00"
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"id": 521173,
"title": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession",
"description": "Egyptomania: Fashion\u2019s Conflicted Obsession. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 1, 2023-January 28, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2023-04-01T04:00:00"
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"description": "New-York Historical Society (6/21/2013 - 9/2/2013): \"Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York\"",
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"description": "Senator William Benton; Marjorie and Charles Benton, Wilmette, IL",
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"date": "By 1973",
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"description": "Merrill C. Berman, New York, NY",
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"date": "By 1996",
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"description": "(D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. New York, NY sold to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)",
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"did_you_know": "Marsh kept meticulous records, indicating that he created this painting between September 5\u201324, 1934.",
"description": "Contrasting the real lives of everyday people with the reel lives of movie stars, this painting portrays a working-class woman standing by a Times Square theater in front of a large poster advertising Cecil B. DeMille\u2019s blockbuster movie Cleopatra, starring Claudette Colbert in the title role. Enormously popular, such film spectacles offered escapist glamour, romance, and power amid the challenges of the Great Depression. Yet, despite the distraction of the city and its entertainments, the woman remains weary and essentially alone in the crowd.",
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"citation": "Lant, Antonia, \"The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania,\" October 59 (Winter 1992).
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"page_number": "Mentioned p. 112; Reproduced p. 111.",
"url": null
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"citation": "Lant, Antonia, \"The Curse of the Pharoah, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania,\" in Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds., Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997).",
"page_number": "Mentioned, p. 93; Reproduced p. 92.",
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"citation": "Lant, Antonia, \"The Curse of the Pharaoh, or How Cinema Contracted Egyptomania,\" in Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, eds., Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997).",
"page_number": "Mentioned p. 93; reproduced p. 92.",
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"citation": "\u201c\u2019Art of Today\u2019 Put on Exhibition at Albright Gallery, Buffalo.\u201d The Art Digest 10 (January 15th, 1936).",
"page_number": "Rerpoduced: p. 20",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Goodrich, Lloyd. Reginald Marsh. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1972.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 63",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Sokol, David M. \u201cSolitude: Inner Visions in American Art.\u201d In Solitude: Inner Visions in American Art September 25- December 30,1982. Evanston: Terra Museum of American Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13,15",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Cohen, Marilyn. Reginald Marsh\u2019s New York: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Photographs. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 52; Reproduced: inside front cover",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Doss, Erika. \u201cImages of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture.\u201d Woman\u2019s Art Journal 4 (Fall/Winter 1983).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1,3",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "\u201cSpellbound in Darkness.\u201d 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": null
},
{
"citation": "Cohen, Marilyn Ann. \u201cReginald Marsh: An Interpretation of His Art.\u201d PhD. Diss., New York University, 1987.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 73,92,182",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Todd, Ellen Wiley. \u201cSex for Sale: Reginald Marsh\u2019s Voluptuous Shopper.\u201d In The \u2018New Woman\u2019 Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 200, 211-217,355-358",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Berman, Avis. \u201cReginald Marsh: Eros and the City.\u201d In Reginald Marsh\u2019s New York. New York: D C Moore Gallery, 1996.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 1, 6-7",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Charney, Leo. \u201cIn Order: Fragmentation in Film and Vaudeville.\u201d 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": null
},
{
"citation": "\u201cHighlights from the Collection.\u201d In D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. catalog, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 22",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Litt, Steven. \u201cMuseum buys Marsh\u2019s \u2018Paramount\u2019.\u201d Plain Dealer, September 14, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. F1, F4",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "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"
},
{
"citation": "\u201cAcquisitions.\u201d 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"
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \u201cObjects of Desire: Collecting American Paintings at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d In What\u2019s 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": null
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"citation": "Adams, Henry. What\u2019s 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": null
},
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \u201cA Picture Finds Its Frame.\u201d Cleveland Art 50 no. 4 (July/August 2010).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 26-27",
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"citation": "Cole, Mark. \"A Picture Finds Its Frame.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 50, no. 4 (July/August 2010): 26-27.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 26-27",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2010-04/page/n25/mode/2up"
},
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"citation": "Franklin, David. \u201cRecent Acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1312 (July 2012).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 532",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bronfen, Elisabeth. \u201cAuf der Suche nach Kleopatra: Das Nachleben einer kulturellen Ikone.\u201d 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": null
},
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"citation": "Russeth, Andrew. \u201c\u2019Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York\u2019 at the New-York Historical Society.\u201d Gallerist NY, June 25, 2013.",
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"citation": "Russeth, Andrew. \u201c\u2019Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York\u2019 at the New-York Historical Society.\u201d Observer, June 25, 2013.",
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"citation": "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": null
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"citation": "Doss, Erika. \u201cParamount Pictures: Reginald Marsh and the Image of the American Woman in the 1930s.\u201d American Studies Exchange (Fall 1982).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3-12",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bovot, Jean-Luc. \"Le Cin\u00e9ma \u00c9gyptisant \u00c0 l'\u00c9poque de l'Art D\u00e9co.\" In Art de\u0301co: \u00c9gyptomanie, edited by Jean-Marcel Humbert, 167-179. Paris, France: Norma E\u0301ditions, 2022.",
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