San Francisco: Temple Emanu-el Courtyard

 

Werner Drewes

  1899 - 1985 (biography)

1926  

etching 

8 x 6" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

"N.2" from an edition of 20 

pencil dated, titled and editioned; monogram and date in plate, lower left 

Rose 122 

heavy wove oatmeal 

published 

artist 

16959 

$1,000.00 

Drewes spent many months in San Francisco in 1926 on his way to the Far East. He did a number of etchings, including 14 views of the Bay Area and 8 portraits. Temple Emanu-el, located in North Beach, had been finished in 1926 at a cost of $1,300,000.00 for the lot and building. Drewes chose to depict the entrance with the fountain as his tribute.