{"data":{"id":"4507","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":4507,"topgoose_id":8311,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":4507,"title":"Bread Line - No One Has Starved","display_artist_text":"Reginald Marsh","display_date":"1932","accession_number":"82.43.1","dimensions":"Sheet (Irregular): 10 × 14 3/16 in. (25.4 × 36 cm)\r\nPlate: 6 3/8 × 11 15/16 in. (16.2 × 30.3 cm)","medium":"Etching","department":"collection","classification":"Prints","credit_line":"Katherine Schmidt Shubert Bequest","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":"Proof E | 2 Proofs, Third state","publication_info":"Printed by Reginald Marsh","description":"\u003cp\u003eReginald Marsh, \u003cem\u003eBread Line - No One Has Starved\u003c/em\u003e, 1932. Etching, sheet (Irregular): 10 × 14 3/16 in. (25.4 × 36 cm)\r\nPlate: 6 3/8 × 11 15/16 in. (16.2 × 30.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Katherine Schmidt Shubert Bequest 82.43.1. ©Estate of Reginald Marsh/Art Students League, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eAt the height of the Depression, Reginald Marsh produced works such as \u003ci\u003eBread Line–No One Has Starved.\u003c/i\u003e The print depicts a procession of destitute men as they waiting in resignation for public assistance. Crammed into a narrow pictorial space, with little distinction among them, the men represent poverty rather than the effects of poverty on individuals. Although Marsh no doubt had compassion for the poor, this collective typecasting turns the bread line into yet another element in the metropolitan landscape, different only in mood from the movie theaters, beaches, railcars, burlesque shows, and dance halls that pervade Marsh’s art.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A long line of men in coats and hats standing shoulder to shoulder waiting for bread.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:20:43.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:14.708-05:00","images":[{"id":96177,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/4507/82_43_1_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"841","type":"artist"}]}}}}