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A Paramount Picture

1934

Reginald Marsh

(American, 1898-1954)

America, 20th century

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.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2006.137

Location

226B American Modern

Fun Fact

Marsh kept meticulous records, indicating that he created this painting between September 5-24, 1934.

Description

Movie theaters are places where people from different walks of life can cross paths. Marsh's painting highlights this by presenting a working-class woman, who grasps a satchel of files from her office job, standing near a wealthier woman adorned in furs.

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Provenance

By 1973

Senator William Benton; Marjorie and Charles Benton, Wilmette, IL

By 1996

Merrill C. Berman, New York, NY

By 2002

(D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. New York, NY sold to Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)

2006-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

“’Art of Today’ Put on Exhibition at Albright Gallery, Buffalo.” The Art Digest 10 (January 15th, 1936). 20

Goodrich, Lloyd. Reginald Marsh. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers, 1972. Repro. 63. 63

Sokol, David M. “Solitude: Inner Visions in American Art.” In Solitude: Inner Visions in American Art September 25- December 30,1982. Evanston: Terra Museum of American Art, 1982. 13,15. 13,15

Cohen, Marilyn. Reginald Marsh’s New York: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Photographs. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1983. Inside front cover, 52. Inside front cover, 52

Doss, Erika. “Images of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture.” Woman’s Art Journal 4 (Fall/Winter 1983): 1,3. 1,3

“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. 17

Cohen, Marilyn Ann. “Reginald Marsh: An Interpretation of His Art.” PhD. Diss., New York University, 1987. 73,92, 182. 73,92,182

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. 200, 211-217, 355-358. 200,211-217,355-358

Berman, Avis. “Reginald Marsh: Eros and the City.” In Reginald Marsh’s New York. New York: D C Moore Gallery, 1996. 1, 6-7. 1, 6-7

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. Repro 118. 118

“Highlights from the Collection.” In D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc. catalog, 2004. Repro 22. 22

Litt, Steven. “Museum buys Marsh’s ‘Paramount’.” Plain Dealer, September 14, 2006. F1, F4. F1, F4

“Acquisitions.” The Cleveland Museum of Art Annual Report July 1, 2006- June 30, 2007. 25. 25 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org

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. 13. 13

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. 134-135. 134-135

Cole, Mark. “A Picture Finds Its Frame.” Cleveland Art 50 no. 4 (July/August 2010): 26-27. 26-27

Franklin, David. “Recent Acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” The Burlington Magazine 154, no. 1312 (July 2012): 532. 532

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. 8, 18. 8,18

Russeth, Andrew. “’Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York’ at the New-York Historical Society.” Observer, June 25, 2013.

Russeth, Andrew. “’Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York’ at the New-York Historical Society.” Gallerist NY, June 25, 2013.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014, 58. 58

Doss, Erika. “Paramount Pictures: Reginald Marsh and the Image of the American Woman in the 1930s.” American Studies Exchange (Fall 1982), 3-12. 3-12

Exhibition history

New-York Historical Society (6/21/2013 - 9/2/2013): "Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York"

Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York. New-York Historical Society (organizer) (June 21-September 2, 2013).

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