Word: raciest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 for Strip Tease in a Union City...