George+Tilyou's+Steeplechase

Date: 1932
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1986/1986.6.60_1a.jpg?itok=ze6vFT0G width="396" height="298" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/george-tilyous-steeplechase-16258"]] || Title: **George Tilyou's Steeplechase**

Artist: **Reginald Marsh** Born: Paris, France 1898 Died: Dorset, Vermont 1954

Medium: oil and egg tempera on linen mounted on fiberboard Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 40 1/8 in. (76.5 x 101.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation

Accession: 1986.6.60 || Marsh's paintings capture the human energy of New York's crowded neighborhoods and tenements. Working class men and women of the 1930s were obliged to do their socializing in public, and this image of a popular Coney Island ride reflects the bawdy and uninhibited atmosphere of the midway. Marsh's initial drawing shows through the paint glazes, preserving the noise and hustle of the moment.
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