Albert Bender

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1940  

drypoint 

14 7/8 x 13 3/16" image size 

pencil, lower right, in image 

1st Proof (total edition not stated) 

pencil titled in lower left, followed by editioning 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist 

22645 

SOLD

Pollak made a series of portraits of prominent Jewish San Franciscans in the 1930s and '40s, many of whom were involved in art patronage. Pictured is Albert Maurice Bender, a German Jew born to Rabbi Philip Bender and Augusta Bender in Ireland in 1866. A leading patron of the arts in San Francisco in the 1920s and 1930s, Bender played a key role in the early career of Ansel Adams and was one of Diego Rivera's first American patrons.