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REGINALD MARSH (1898-1954)
Merry Go-Round
etching, on laid J. Whatman paper, 1930, signed in pencil, numbered '# 27' (partially erased), from the edition of an unknown size, with margins
Image: 678 x 934 in. (175 x 248 mm.)
Sheet: 838 x 1178 in. (213 x 302 mm.)
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Sasowsky 99
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Please note this lot is from the 1930 edition of an unknown size, and is not from the posthumous edition printed in 1969.
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Marsh had a studio on 14th Street near Union Square from which he could observe the urban hub-bub as it was evolving in 1920s and 1930s New York. Coney Island was in fact a venue only recently available to working-class New Yorkers via the subway connection of Manhattan to Brooklyn in 1915.
The merry-go-round at Coney Island opened in 1906 and still runs today; it was a signature attraction at the Luna Park amusement park.

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