New York: Washington Arch

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1928  

color etching & aquatint 

13 x 11 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

45/150; possibly only 50 impressions printed according to notation at bottom of sheet 

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso: Made in Austria; inscribed in pencil at lower sheet edge: "printed a. 50" 

Triton Museum, cat. no. 67 

ivory laid Van Gelder Zonen with watermark 

published 

 

PAKU112 

SOLD

The Washington Arch is located in Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. The marble arch was designed by Stanford White and dedicated in 1895 honoring George Washington. The arch is situated in Washington Square Park and the nearby fountain predates it by forty-three years. The skyscraper is an apartment building located at One Fifth Avenue.