Reginald Marsh
(Paris, France, 1898 - 1954, Dorset, Vermont)
Untitled (Woman With Barber Pole)
c. 1947
Tempera on paper
31 x 22 in. (78.7 x 55.9 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of the estate of Felicia Meyer Marsh
1979.8 a,b
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"...it opened a new world to me. Egg is a fine 'draftsmans' vehicle and very easy to handle... The luminosity and clearness of drawing is preserved, yet a certain greasy quality of the yolk gives a 'fat' oily effect. Drying is instantaneous and superimposed brush strokes are easily made... I put egg yolk on a kind of belt line production and chucked oil forever." Reginald Marsh quoted in 'Lloyd Goodrich' Reginald Marsh, The Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., 1955, p. 8