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The Irving Place Burlesque 1930

The Irving Place Burlesque 1930

Reginald Marsh
American, 1898–1954
1913
An etching by Reginald Marsh that stages a crowded New York burlesque, aiming to record the rough energy and comic voyeurism of a night at the theater.
You immediately notice the dense, scratchy lines and the dramatic contrast between the illuminated, smiling performer at left and the closely packed, expressive faces—from amused men in the private box to the rapt mass in the stalls—rendered like a chorus of reactions.
Marsh’s print brings the city’s popular entertainments into fine art, expanding American printmaking’s focus on urban life and social observation by turning everyday spectacle into a study of class, desire, and public leisure.
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Etching
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Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Accession
1239.1940
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