Couple on the Beach
c. 1940s
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View on museum website →Medium
pen and black ink, wash, and gouache on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22.23 × 26.04 cm (8 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Sen. William Benton)
Accession Number
2015.19.991
About the Artist
Reginald Marsh
Reginald Marsh was born on March 14, 1898, in Paris, where both his parents — American artists — were living, and grew up in Nutley, New Jersey. He graduated from Yale University in 1920 and moved to New York City to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator, finding early success with caricatures and sketches for the New York Daily News and, from 1925, The New Yorker. A casual desire to learn pa...