REGINALD MARSH | Bread Line

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Description

Reginald Marsh
Bread Line
signed REGINALD MARSH. and titled BREAD LINE (lower right); also dated 11/22/30 (on the reverse)
drybrush and ink on paper
image: 8 by 29 inches (20.3 by 73.7 cm)
sheet: 10 1/2 by 30 1/4 inches (26.7 by 76.8 cm)

Provenance

Senator William Benton, New York and Southport, Connecticut (probably acquired directly from the artist)
Helen Boley, Madison, Wisconsin, 1973 (his daughter, by descent)

Exhibited

Madison, Wisconsin, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-2018 (on long-term loan)

Literature

Gilbert Burck and Charles E. Silberman, "Why the Depression Lasted So Long," Fortune, March 1955, illustrated p. 84