Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's fattest cash prizes for art was copped last week by a grossly satirical picture of unbuttoned sensuality. For Strip Tease in New Jersey, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. handed over its $2,000 W. A. Clark First Prize Award to blond, balding Reginald Marsh...
...Yale-trained (class of 1920) son of an artist, "Reggie" Marsh studied painting at Manhattan's Art Students League, made his reputation in the late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration...
...fortnight with a show of 219 invited works. The Corcoran Biennial carries four sizable awards. This year's Second Prize, $1,500, went to Malvin Marr Albright who signs his work "Zsissly," to keep from being confused with his twin brother, famed Chicago Painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Marsh's first-prizewinner raised an occasional eyebrow, lowbrow and highbrow; they lowered to normal at Zsissly-Albright's Deer Isle, Maine, a faithful-to-nature landscape...
Other educators than Presidents Conant of Harvard and Hutchins of Chicago were less pessimistic and critical in regarding the GI Bill of Rights. President Daniel L. Marsh, speaking at Boston University commencement exercises on Saturday, called the Bill "one of the finest and most constructive pieces of social legislation ever enacted by any government." He observed, further, that "the GI Bill offers opportunity to practically everyone in the armed service except the dishonorably discharged veteran." "How incomparably better it will be for veterans to turn to college pending the finding of jobs than to walk the streets or go into...
...Reginald Marsh, famed Manhattan painter of metropolitan low-life - for doing it in watercolors this time...