San Francisco, Between the Bridges

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1949  

color aquatint with roulette 

12 7/8 x 19 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

1 of 150  

titled, lower left; bears the red collector's stamp of Friedl Pollak in lower left corner of the paper along with the inscription: Friedl collection 

Triton catalogue 63, illustrated on page [16] 

cream wove Arches with watermark 

published 

artist 

22627 

SOLD

This view is from the Marin Headlands looking southeast toward San Francisco. At top left is the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco to east bay cities and at right are the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge which connects the city with Marin County and cities north. At the base of San Francisco Bay is Horseshoe Cove which is a historic marina at Fort Baker and at the top of the bay is San Francisco, often referred to as Bagdad by the Bay by columnist Herb Caen. The cove was quiet and protected and The San Carlos, the first Spanish ship to sail in San Francisco Bay, anchored near these waters in 1775. The U.S. Army purchased the land in 1866 and the began building a breakwater. This area was used for the production of concrete for building the Golden Gate Bridge and the fort was instrumental for the defense of the San Francisco Bay during World War II.