Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Marsh, Reginald
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
- Marsh, Reginald, 1898-1954
Other form(s) of name
- Reginald Marsh
- Reg Marsh
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1898-1954
History
Reginald Marsh was a artist and friend of Owen Merton, Thomas' father and another artist. Unlike Owen, who tended toward watercolor landscapes, Marsh is often considered of the Social Realist school, reporting in detail urban life in the 1930's through his paintings and drawings. Merton writes to Marsh in April of 1932 while on Easter holiday from Oakham in Germany and writes again from Oakham. He would spend most of the summer of 1933 at Marsh's studio in Greenwich Village in New York. (Source: The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton by Michael Mott, pp. 61 and 73.)