Correspondence
odd: label: Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2
content: This list represents only a selection of correspondents and does not include names of family.

General CorrespondenceAmerican Artists Group, Inc.: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1941, 1942

Archer, Edmund: 1944, 1949

Arms, John Taylor: 1945, 1948, 1951

Art Institute of Chicago (School): 1945

Arts Bureau of Gartner and Bender, Inc.: 1947

Associated American Artists, Inc.: 1940

Barrymore, Lionel: 1949

Bartlett, Clay: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, undated

Baum, Richard F.: 1953, 1954

Bishop, Isabel: 1942, 1950, undated

Book-of-the-Month Club: 1945, 1946

Bork, Jacob: 1936

Burroughs, Alan: 1930, 1953

Carnegie Institute: 1947

Coates, Robert M.: 1921, 1922, 1954, undated

Corcoran Gallery of Art: 1945, 1954

Cornelius, Marty: 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952

Coutts, Jeane: 1946, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951

Dreiser, Theodore: 1939

Eakins, Susan: 1928, 1929

Genauer, Emily: 1952

Goodrich, Lloyd: 1927, 1940, 1951, undated

Gregory, Alyse: 1936, 1938, 1940, 1945, 1947, 1952, 1953

Hallmark Cards (Hall Brothers Inc.): 1950, 1951

Harper's Magazine: 1953

Hartmann, Sadakichi: 1939

Hopkins, Peter: 1951

Houghton Miflin Company: 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954

Huntley, Victoria Hutson: 1948

Kelly, Augustus: 1942, 1943, 1944

Kinsey, Alfred C.: 1950

Kuniyoshi, Katherine (Schmidt): 1922, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, undated

Kuniyoshi, Yasuo: 1922, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, undated

Laning, Edward: 1943, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952

Larkin, Oliver: 1951

Life --  Magazine: 1943

Limited Editions Club: 1953, 1954

Living American Art, Inc.: 1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1941

Mandel, Estelle: 1951

Maroger, Jacques: 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, undated

Merton, Owen: 1927, 1928

Merton, Thomas: 1932, undated

Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1951, 1954

Museum of the City of New York: 1953, 1954

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts: 1942

Miller, Kenneth Hayes: 1929, 1933, 1943

National Academy of Design: 1944

National Institute of Arts and Letters: 1954

New York Times: 1942

Nordmark, Olle: 1939

Overton, Richard C.: 1951, 1952, 1954

Pantheon Books Inc.: 1951, 1954

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts: 1941

Philadelphia Museum of Art: 1944

Pierpont Morgan Library: 1951

Powys, Llewelyn: 1927, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, undated

Pratt Institute: 1949

Redelius, Frank: 1952, 1953

Rehn Galleries (Frank K. M. Rehn, Inc.): 1948

Rose, Billy: 1950

Rothschild, Lincoln: 1950

Royal Society of Arts, London: 1947

Soyer, Raphael: 1951

Treasury Department, Washington: 1944, 1952

University of Rochester, College of Arts and Sciences: 1940

Weyhe Gallery (E. Weyhe): 1943

Whitney Museum of American Art: 1944, 1953, 1954

Wilder, Thornton: 1923

Worcester Art Museum: 1951

Wyeth, Andrew: 1952, 1953

Project CorrespondenceBiddle, George: 1935, 1943

Bruce, Edward: 1938

Dows, Olin: 1935, 1936

Jones, Cecil H.: 1936, 1937, 1938

Nordmark, Olle: 1935, 1936, 1937, 1941, 1942

Owen, William B.: 1936

Rowan, Edward B.: 1935, 1936

Sharkey, Alice M.: 1936

Watson, Forbes: 1936, 1937
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
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content: Reginald Marsh papers
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content: (boxes 1-2, OV 12; 1.2 linear feet)
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content: 1920-1954
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: AAA.marsregi, Series 2
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Series consists of Marsh's personal and professional correspondence. Among the correspondents are vaudeville performers and producers, artists, museums, galleries, publishers, greeting card companies, government officials, admirers, and former students, as well as family and friends. Correspondence largely concerns Marsh's career as a painter and illustrator, and his relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. 

Correspondence documents his work as a vaudeville reviewer for the New York Daily News from 1922 to 1925; the sale and exhibition of his art work; the publication of his illustrations and caricatures in various magazines; his book illustrations; and the reproduction of his art work on greeting cards produced by American Artists Group and Living American Art, Inc. There are also extensive files (which also contain scattered business, financial, and travel documents) relating to his work on two federal art projects, murals in the Post Office Department, Washington, D.C. (1935) and the Customs House in New York (1937), and his assignment as an artist correspondent in Brazil during the Second World War (1943). Similar materials are also found amongst the business and financial papers in Series 7.

Correspondence documents his relationships with his father, Fred Dana Marsh, his first wife, Betty Burroughs, and his second wife, Felicia Meyer Marsh, as well as his relationships with friends and colleagues, including the English writer, Llewelyn Powys, the artists, Yasuo and Katherine Kuniyoshi, and the U.S. Senator (and former Yale classmate), William Benton, who ended up being one of the largest collectors of Marsh's work.

Letters from artists, such as Edward Laning, and curators, such as Lloyd Goodrich, provide some sense of Marsh's methods and techniques for creating art work (especially his use of the "Maroger medium") and his views on art and current art movements (especially Abstract Expressionism). Correspondence pertaining to the award competition for the U.S. Building at the New York World's Fair, which includes versions of Marsh's letters to and letters from Edward Bruce of the Treasury Department Section of Painting and Sculpture, is especially suggestive of Marsh's strong feelings of "despair" over the lack of originality in contemporary art.

General correspondence is typically arranged in chronological files, interspersed with files named according to correspondent. Letters are typically to Marsh, unless otherwise noted. Project correspondence is arranged according to the name of the project on which Marsh worked or to which correspondence pertains. Envelopes, which had at some earlier point been separated from correspondence, and greeting cards are arranged in files at the end of the series. An appendix of significant correspondent's names from the chronological files is included in this finding aid. 

See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.