
Art Institute of Chicago
Tattoo and Haircut
Reginald Marsh · 1932
Provenance
Ownership history
- Frank K. M. Rehn, New York, by 1933 [Harshe, 1933, 73]; sold to John Wanamaker, New York, by Oct. 1934; [Rehn Gallery again?]; [Ferargil Galleries in 1943?]; to Mr. and Mrs. Earle Ludgin, Chicago; given to Art Institute in 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, <em>Paintings by Reginald Marsh</em>, Apr. 3–22, 1933, cat. 1, as <em>Tattoo and Haircut</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5626/a-century-of-progress-loan-exhibition-of-paintings-and-sculpture-1933"><em>A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em></a>, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 598.
- New York, John Wanamaker New York, <em>The Wanamaker Regional Art Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting</em>, Oct. 13–Nov. 3, 1934, cat. 157.
- New York, Ferargil Galleries, <em>American Paintings Summer 1943</em>, July 19–Sept. 15, 1943, cat. 27.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Reginald Marsh</em>, Sept. 21–Nov. 6, 1955, cat. 9, ill., Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Nov. 27–Dec. 25, 1955, Detroit Institute of Art, Jan. 13–Feb. 12, 1956, City Art Museum, St. Louis, Mar. 2–Apr. 1, 1956, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Apr. 15–May 20, 1956, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, June 10–July 8, 1956, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 25–Aug. 26, 1956, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sept. 13–Oct. 14, 1956.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 24.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- New York, Gallery of Modern Art, <em>Reginald Marsh</em>, Dec. 1, 1964–Jan. 29, 1965, no cat.
- Munich, Haus der Kunst, <em>Amerikanische malerei, 1930–1980</em>, Nov. 14, 1981–Jan. 31, 1982, cat. 141, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection</em>, Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 1982, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- "John S. Curry and Reginald Marsh," <em>New York Tribune</em>, April 8, 1933.
- "Reginald Marsh's Bowery," <em>New York Sun</em>, April 8, 1933.
- F. A. Blossom, "Reginald Marsh as a Painter," <em>Creative Art</em> 12 (1933), ill. p. 262, as <em>Tattoo–Shave–Haircut</em>.
- Robert B. Harshe, <em>Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from American Collections</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), 73, cat. 598.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 295.
- John FitzMaurice Mills, "Art Forum," <em>The Irish Times</em> (Jan. 11, 1966), p. 8, ill.
- Matthew Baigell, <em>The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s</em> (Praeger Publishers, 1974), pl. 2.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 185–87, cat. 82 (ill.).
- Carmen Nyssen, "Willy Moskowitz: Bowery Barber-Tattoo Artist," <em>Buzzworthy Tattoo History</em>, accessed September 24, 2020, <a href="https://www.buzzworthytattoo.com/tattoo-history-research-articles/willy-moskowitz-bowery-barber-tattoo-artist">https://www.buzzworthytattoo.com/tattoo-history-research-articles/willy-moskowitz-bowery-barber-tattoo-artist/</a>, as <em>Tattoo, Shave, Haircut</em> (ill.).
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