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[Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist] / Reginald Marsh. – Antique Wall Art

[Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist] / Reginald Marsh. — historic drawing
[Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist] / Reginald Marsh.. Historic drawing from the Music & Dance collection.

(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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist] / Reginald Marsh.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist] / Reginald Marsh.

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A shabby elderly fiddler plays at the edge of a well-dressed crowd, while the Carnegie Hall marquee above them advertises a performance by Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian-born violinist then among the most celebrated musicians in the world. Reginald Marsh, who made the crowds and street life of New York a recurring subject, drew this 1929 scene in litho crayon, ink, opaque white, and graphite on layered paper. The contrast is the point: the concertgoers appear bound for a ticketed evening inside the hall, while the street musician plays for passersby on the same pavement.

Medium1 drawing on layered paper : litho crayon, ink, opaque white, and graphite.
Notes[1929]
SubjectsCarnegie Hall (New York, N.Y.)--1920-1930. Crowds--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Street musicians--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,162 × 1,460 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216768

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