Description
“Tattoo, Haircut, and Shave” by Reginald Marsh
- Artist: Reginald Marsh
- Date: 1932
- Medium: Etching and engraving (print); tempera (painting)
- Subject: The artwork depicts a busy, “vibrantly alive” but dilapidated scene in the Bowery, a neighborhood in the Lower East Side of New York City known for its transient lodging, brothels, and tattoo parlors during the Great Depression. The composition includes men loitering beneath an elevated train structure, with signs advertising the services mentioned in the title.
- 10 1/2″ x 14
- Torn from The Art Institute of Chicago catalog
- Shotsie Gorman Collection
