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San Francisco, The Golden Gate by Max Pollak

San Francisco, The Golden Gate by Max Pollak

San Francisco, The Golden Gate

Max Pollak

Title

San Francisco, The Golden Gate

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1944  
Technique
etching and color aquatint 
Image Size
14 7/8 x 14 1/2" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 150  
Annotations
pencil titled, in lower left; bears red copyright stamp wihin image in lower right; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak and pencil inscribed Friedl collection 
Reference
No. 76 on the checklist of titles included in Pollak's exhibition at the University of California, April 3 - May 15, 1949 
Paper
two pieces of thin ivory laid Japanese paper which were put into the press at the same time and have stuck together 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22557 
Price
SOLD
Description

Max Pollak selected a view from above Baker Beach in San Francisco to work up this color aquatint image of the Golden Gate Bridge as it spans over the Golden Gate to Marin County in the distance.

The cypress trees are bent to the east as a result of succumbing to the almost constant winds coming off the Pacific Ocean to the west.

Pollak shows a ship about to enter San Francisco Bay after its long voyage from the Pacific Rim, a device he often would use to give the viewer a sense of scale for the composition, juxtaposing a figure or human scale object against the landscape.