Born in 1872 to a prosperous Chicago stockyard merchant, Marsh attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he worked with artists preparing murals for the Chicago World"s Fair in 1893, learning the big brush techniques of mural painting.
lieutenant now resides in the Newark Museum in New Jersey. Marsh and his family returned to New York at the turn of the century, moving to Nutley, New Jersey, where they acquired a home located on The Enclosure, a street that had been established as an artists" colony some decades earlier by the American painter Frank Fowler. In 1914 they moved to the well-known New Rochelle artist colony in New Rochelle, New New York
Marsh attended Yale University from 1916 through 1920 during which time he worked as Editor of the "Yale Record".
He created paintings for wealthy clients, as well as a series of murals entitled "Allegories of Industry" for the New York Engineering Society Library. Marsh also produced a number of terra cotta murals entitled "Maritime History of the Hudson" for the Hotel McAlpin in New York, which were later relocated to the New York City subway in 2000.
During World War I, he produced patriotic posters for the publicity department of the Navy. Marsh largely retired from commercial art in 1928.
Foreign the rest of his life, Marsh would also continue to split his time between Ormond Beach and Woodstock, New New York
Marsh died on December 20, 1961.
