Reginald Marsh

New Lots Express Brooklyn

1934

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Reginald Marsh

New Lots Express Brooklyn

Reginald Marsh

New Lots Express Brooklyn

1934

Physical Qualities Egg tempera; glaze on hardboard, Framed: 43 1/2 x 36 x 3 5/8 in. (110.5 x 91.4 x 9.2 cm) Sight: 35 1/4 x 27 1/8 in. (89.5 x 68.9 cm)

Credit Line Gift from the Estate of Felicia Meyer Marsh

Object Number 1979.29

Painter and illustrator Reginald Marsh depicted this crowded subway scene, capturing the movement of passengers from various economic, social, and racial backgrounds in and out of the city center of Manhattan. New Lots, a neighborhood largely populated by Black and Puerto Rican families, was annexed in 1886 as a part of Brooklyn. By the early 1920s, Brooklyn was linked to Manhattan by the subway system. Despite the crowded composition, Marsh isolated the passengers from one another as they read or gaze away lost in their own thoughts, similar to riders one might see on public transportation today.

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Reginald Marsh

American, born France, 1898-1954

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Great Exhibition... of Industry and Contemporary Jokes. Enter and judge for yourself! Everything is arranged and ready: The pancake of the courts good for digestion (To the side: and difficult to digest). The Master-thief who catches all!! (save for his shadow). Liquid bitumen! (exactly). Men's shirts for the use of little children. The marvellous indestructible hats (that melt in the sun and dissolve in the rain). Dromedar cream in great demand (by fools). English beer with lots of froth (like in the newspapers). Simpleton's sublime, the classic coal of Saint Pétrain that one can put to the test (at any time).

1839