Coney Island Beach Yale University Art Gallery

1934

Medium: Egg tempera on board
Dimensions: 35 5/8 × 39 5/8 in. (90.5 × 100.6 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Reginald Marsh
Accession Number: 1963.22.1
Geography: Depicted: Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York; Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography

Robin Jaffee Frank, "Coney Island Baby," in "Essays in Honor of Helen A. Cooper," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2015), 122, fig. 2

Carmenita Higginbotham, The Urban Scene: Race, Reginald Marsh, and American Art (University Park, Pa.: The Pennsylvania State University, 2015), 67, 88, detail of fig. 38 on p. 67, fig. 38

Robin Jaffee Frank et al., Coney Island Visions of an American Dreamland 1861-2008, exh. cat. (New Haven: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2015), n.p., pl. 72

Richard Cox, "Coney Island: Urban Symbol in American Art," New York Historical Society Quarterly 60, no. 1/2 (1976), 51, ill.

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

caricatures, egg tempera, fiberboard, seascapes

hats, men, sun, sunlight, women

Signed l.r. "REGINALD MARSH 1934"

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