19th, 20th & 21st Century Fine Prints
707-546-7352 · fax 707-546-7924 · web: www.annexgalleries.com · email: artannex@aol.com
New York, East Side II: Under the "El" a.k.a. New York: The East Side: Allen Street by Max Pollak
New York, East Side II: Under the "El" a.k.a. New York: The East Side: Allen Street
Max Pollak
New York, East Side II: Under the "El" a.k.a. New York: The East Side: Allen Street
Max Pollak
1886 - 1970 (biography)Max Pollak was commissioned by author Theodore Dreiser to do a series of eight color etchings of New York which were then reproduced in his book "My City", published in 1929 by Horace Liveright. This image, number 4 in the book, was published by Rudolf Lesch Fine Arts, New York. Pollak printed a number of the works while in his Austria, where he was brought up.
Though the edition for the New York images was anticipated as 150 Pollak did not finish the whole edition, the stock market crashed the next year, 1929, when Dreiser's book was published, and the economic practicality of printing a full edition disappeared.
In New York City, Allen Street runs through the neighborhood of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. In 1878, the city built an elevated railway over Allen Street and it was known as the Second Avenue Line or the "El."