Huntington adds Marsh locomotive painting to American art collection
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Once the great estate of a railroad tycoon, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has just become home to a painting of a powerful locomotive. Last week a group of art collectors helped the Huntington buy a 1935 Reginald Marsh painting of a hulking locomotive at work, belching copious amounts of steam.
The painting adds to the Huntington’s holdings in 20th century American art, a growth field for the institution, and complements its library holdings on the history of the railroad industry.
Marsh made this painting, which measures about 5 feet by 5 feet, in 1935 as a study for an even larger mural at the Post Office Building in Washington, D.C., that had been commissioned by the Treasury Department.
-- Jori Finkel, Los Angeles Times