San Francisco, Mission Dolores

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1945  

color drypoint, etching & aquatint 

14 3/4 x 13 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

60 of 150  

pencil titled and editioned 

Triton catalogue 68, illustrated in black and white 

cream laid vellum paper 

published 

artist 

17723 

SOLD

Mission Dolores (Mission San Francisco de Asis) was founded by Lieutenant Jose Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palou in 1776. It is the sixth in the chain of missions in California and is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco. Dedicated in 1791, the present church still functions as an important community and religious center. The façade has remained virtually untouched since it was built. The location for the mission was selected based upon its proximity to the Arroyo de los Dolores. Pollak added a remarque, a small drawing, in the lower margin of a covered wagon on a trail. See our link to the artist's biography above.