This image is presented as a "thumbnail" because it is protected
by copyright. The Brooklyn Museum respects the rights of artists
who retain the copyright to their work. The urban realist
Reginald Marsh depicted modern New York life—burlesque theaters,
crowded subways, popular beaches—in a variety of media.
Watercolor allowed him to work quickly, a manner that he had
developed as a newspaper and magazine illustrator. In this
picture, Marsh used both dry and wet washes: note how he blurred
the outline of the locomotive by letting wet paints bleed into
each other in order to convey the sense of the train’s velocity
as it speeds through the landscape. - Artist: Reginald Marsh,
American, 1898-1954 - Medium: Transparent and opaque watercolor
over graphite on cream, thick, moderately textured wove paper -
Dates: 1930 - Dimensions: 13 15/16 x 19 15/16 in. (35.4 x 50.6
cm) Frame: 24 x 30 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed lower right: "R. MARSH 1930" - Inscriptions:
On verso, lower righ