Drawings from the collected sketchbooks of the American artist Reginald Marsh. Text by Edward Laning. "As a record of the New York of thirty, forty, and fifty more years - ago its waterfront, its derelicts, its teeming life in street and subway - the sketchbooks are a mine of historical record and nostalgic recollection. These sketches will be enormously interesting to the student tracing the genesis of Marsh's finished works and to the layman fascinated by Marsh's creative process and justly admired draftsmanship. Perhaps even more than the paintings, the drawings reveal the essence of Marsh's genius." -- from interior flap. Includes chronology. Printed in black-and-white and color.