An artist much favored by the New Deal is bullnecked Reginald Marsh, Yale graduate, Associate of the National Academy of Design, painter of burlesque shows, locomotives, Coney Island. Out of the mass of New Deal art contracts, Artist Marsh has received enough to keep him almost continuously employed for the past three years, his best known murals being narrow panels of unloading mail sacks in Washington's new Post Office.
One space that Muralist Marsh has long itched to fill is the 30-year-old dome of Manhattan's Custom House, as fine a public expanse of plaster...
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