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theater curtain for a musical comedy, and starting to paint large pictures in egg tempera containing many figures, and, "in order to draw them better", as he said, had begun studying anatomy by dissecting corpses at a medical school.

Etching necessarily was but a small part of Marsh’s creative artistry at this time; but it was a very significant one. Mrs. Mayer has said.".... when he painted and etched the same composition, he was able to concentrate more with the black and white and the small scale, almost as though the painting had been a sketch for the etching”! This seems a remarkable fact. Reginald Marsh painted and drew large compositions more than he etched. Nevertheless the importance of etching and, later, of engraving in the whole body of his work throws light on an essential aspect of [[strikethrough]] both [[/strikethrough]] his artistic problem and his achievement. The problem relates to the character of his subject matter and to his attitude toward it. He said of his subjects of the late 20's and the '30's: "I..... paid frequent visits to the beach at Coney Island where a