Wonderland Circus, Sideshow Coney Island
Artist
Reginald Marsh
(American, 1898-1954)
Date1930
MediumTempera on canvas stretched on masonite
DimensionsFramed: 57 1/2 x 57 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (146.1 x 146.1 x 6.4 cm)
Image: 48 3/4 x 48 in. (123.8 x 121.9 cm)
Image: 48 3/4 x 48 in. (123.8 x 121.9 cm)
ClassificationsOffice Equipment and Furniture
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 1976
Object numberSN951
Marsh was heir to the Ash Can School, and he emerged as a mature artist only in 1930 after a decade of study while working for the New York Daily News and The New Yorker. Like the artists of the Ash Can School, he found the teeming city an endless source of picturesque subjects, from the squalor of the Bowery to the strip joints of Times Square. He was at his best, however, in depicting Coney Island, where masses of working-class New Yorkers congregated to seek enjoyment and escape the summer heat. Sideshow is one of Marsh's first major paintings.
On View
Not on view
1935
