“The Cleveland Museum of Art recently acquired a widely reproduced masterpiece by Reginald Marsh, a superlative chronicler of Depression-era life in America. The painting, ‘A Paramount Picture,’ from 1934, depicts a rumpled, working-class woman standing near a well-to-do couple outside a movie theater showing Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘Cleopatra.'” The museum has not revealed what it paid for the painting.