Reginald Marsh Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) is well-known as an American realist painter and printmaker who was based in New York City.

Reginald Marsh was an American realist painter and printmaker whose career was closely tied to New York City. He returned again and again to the city’s public theater of beaches, burlesque and vaudeville stages, and the streets of the Bowery, building scenes from careful observation and drawing.