Pretty - isn't it?" / Reginald Marsh." – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Pretty - isn't it?" / Reginald Marsh.", preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Pretty - isn't it?" / Reginald Marsh."
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Reginald Marsh's drawing carries its own commentary in the title, "Pretty - isn't it?", a wry remark that sets the scene before the viewer looks closely. The work is built on tracing paper using litho crayon and ink, with areas scraped away to lift light through the dark masses. Its subjects are the Brooklyn Bridge, the riverfront, and the towers of lower Manhattan during the 1920s, when the city's skyline was rising fast and the bridge stood as a symbol of its engineering ambitions. Marsh, known for his vigorous street and urban scenes, turns that skyline into something both admiring and faintly skeptical.
| Medium | 1 drawing on tracing paper : litho crayon, ink, and scraping out ; 56 x 43.3 cm (sheet) |
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| Notes | [1925] |
| Subjects | Skyscrapers--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Rivers--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,117 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137072 |
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