Reginald Marsh

Erie R.R. Locomotives Watering
1934, printed 1969

A detailed black and white etching depicting an industrial scene with workers and steam locomotives. Smoke billows from the engines, filling the upper part of the image, while workers engage with machinery and locomotives on tracks below. The artwork captures the energy and intensity of early industrial rail yards.
A detailed black and white etching depicting an industrial scene with workers and steam locomotives. Smoke billows from the engines, filling the upper part of the image, while workers engage with machinery and locomotives on tracks below. The artwork captures the energy and intensity of early industrial rail yards.

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Date
1934, printed 1969

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 15 9/16in. (33.7 × 39.5 cm) Plate: 8 13/16 × 11 13/16in. (22.4 × 30 cm)

Accession number
69.97.14

Series
Thirty Etchings and Engravings

Edition
Proof, Posthumous print | 14 proofs, Ed. 100

Publication
Printed by Andersen-Lamb Photogravure Corporation; published by Whitney Museum of American Art

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Original plate donated by William Benton

Rights and reproductions
©Estate of Reginald Marsh/Art Students League, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/6212

Reginald Marsh
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