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New York, Telephone Building by Max Pollak
New York, Telephone Building
Max Pollak
New York, Telephone Building
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Max Pollak was commissioned by author Theodore Dreiser to do a series of eight etchings of New York which were reproduced in Dreiser's book "My City", published in 1929. The eight published works were also done in editions of 150, this image was probably an edition of 50 or fewer. This is the final (8th) image used. The publisher was the Rudolph Lesch Corporation in New York.
The looming skyscraper is now the Verizon Building but it was previously known as the Barclay-Vesley Building and the New York Telephone Building. It is a thirty-two story building located on West Street in lower Manhattan. The building was designed by the architect Ralph Walker and was completed in 1927.
Pollak created this view seeming standing among the tilted headstones of a cemetery, probably one of Trinity Church's, a juxtaposition of old and new.