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Alma Mater
Alma Mater

Alma Mater

Artist (American, 1898 - 1954)
Date1933
MediumTempera on masonite
DimensionsFramed: H 45 x W 33 in. (H 114.3 x W 83.8 cm)
Image: H 36 x W 24 in. (H 91.4 x W 61 cm)
Credit LinePurchase 1944 Arthur F. Egner Memorial Fund
Object number44.303
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Object NamePainting
Title Details
Published Title Alma Mater
Remarks The title came from the name of the statue in New York's Union Square, where the unemployed "lounged about" in 1933. [1981 Newark Museum Catalogue]
Inscriptionsrecto: l.r. gray paint "Reginald / Marsh '33"; back of frame: u.l. black marker "Alma Mater"; u.r., black ink "NEWARK / THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA / TUSCAN, ARIZONA 85721 / MUSEUM OF ART / OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR / EASTSIDE, WESTSIDE / ALL AROUND THE TOWN / REGINALD MARSH RETROSPECTIVE / MARCH 9 - APRIL 6, 1969"Marks and Labels/Stampsverso: l.l., black ink "Newark Museum Association, Neewark, N.J."; back of frame: u.c., printed gum label "HAHN BROS. / NEW YORK CITY / LOT NO. PIECE NUMBER 22"; c., embossed label "III. ALMA MATER 1933 NEWARK MUSEUM";ProvenanceFrank K.M. Rehn, Inc., New York, New York.Exhibition HistoryEast Side, West Side, All Around the Town; A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, by Reginald Marsh," Tucson: University of Arizona Museum of Art, March 9-April 6, 1969.
"Realism Revisted" Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan (April 27 - May 30, 1966).
"Reginald Marsh," Rehn Gallery, New York, September 13-November 3, 1960.
"Reginald Marsh," Rehn Gallery, New York, November-December 8, 1934.

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