Couple on the Beach, c. 1940s

Not on View

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Sen. William Benton)

Accession Number

2015.19.991

Artists / Makers

Reginald Marsh (artist) American, born France, 1898 - 1954

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Inscription

upper right in black ink by unknown hand: 051-2; verso in pen and black ink by unknown hand: JULY 1868 / GREEN / SOFT WOVE THIN TO MEDIUM / PERF 12 / BLUE GREEN / TYPE II / WORN PLATE

Marks and Labels

drafting grid printed on verso in grey ink

Provenance

Senator William Benton, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1961; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Benton, William, The Honorable
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

1980: The Human Form: Contemporary American Figure Drawing and the Academic Tradition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980, no. 42

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 192, no. 1299.