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The Steeplechase

The Steeplechase

Reginald Marsh
American, 1898–1954
(1932)
An etching by Reginald Marsh that stages a steeplechase as a dramatic spectacle—horses and riders lunging across a balustrade—to convey the rush and peril of the race.
What strikes you is the violent diagonal cross-hatching and overlapping forms that blur riders and horses into a single, surging mass, giving the image a staccato sense of speed, rain, and tension.
Marsh transformed the traditional etching into a tool for modern social observation, using graphic energy to bring 1930s American popular spectacle and urban life into the realm of fine printmaking.
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
composition: 7 7/8 x 10 7/8" (20 x 27.7 cm); sheet: 10 1/4 x 13 5/16" (26 x 33.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
1238.1940
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