Harbor with Boats at Anchor
1927
Medium
watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 35.4 × 50.8 cm (13 15/16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Felicia Meyer Marsh, wife of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.2790
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Reginald Marsh · 1898–1954
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...