Gathering the Mail

Artist Reginald Marsh (American, b. France, 1898 - 1954)

Date1934

MediumFresco on cement

DimensionsOverall: 37 5/8 x 47 3/4 in. (95.6 x 121.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art

Object number85.3

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

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Signedbottom right: MARSH

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (112), Palmer Museum of Art, February 19, 2025–present. All Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955, Shelburne Museum, VT, June 22–October 20, 2024; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, November 3, 2024–January 26, 2025. Love of the Rail (1850–1950), Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, September 16–November 30, 1989. Reginald Marsh (1898–1954): Paintings and Works on Paper, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO, January 18–March 1, 1986; Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, March 13–April 19, 1986. American Art from the Gallery's Collection, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, October 4–25, 1980.ProvenanceThe artist. Olle Nordmark, Hopewell Junction, NY, 1934. William Margerin, Hopewell Junction, NY, unknown date of acquisition, until 1980. Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, 1980. Palmer Museum of Art [as the Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University], purchased from Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1985.Published ReferencesAll Aboard: The Railroad in American Art, 1840–1955 (exh. cat.) (Memphis, TN: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 2024), 124, 125 (ill.), 143, no. 37. Kathleen Wunderly, "Penn State Exhibits Mail-Gathering Mural," Scott Stamp Monthly, February 2002, 49 (ill.). Love of the Rail (1850–1950) (exh. cat.) (Loretto, PA: Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 1989), n.p. (ill., no. 17). Ruth Bass, "Reginald Marsh: Hirschl & Adler," ArtNews 85 (September 1986): 121. Reginald Marsh (1898–1954): Paintings and Works on Paper (exh. cat.) (New York: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1985), 23 (ill., color, no. 19). American Art from the Gallery's Collection (exh. cat.) (New York: Hirschl and Adler Galleries, 1980), 99 (ill., no. 84).