Awnings and Balconies (Chinatown, S.F.)

 

John William Winkler

  1894 - 1979 (biography)

1920  

etching 

6 x 7 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower center 

rare, not editioned 

titled in pencil, lower left margin; signed and dated in plate, lower right image. In pencil, lower right corner "Wi 2." 

Winkler checklist 35; illustrated page 90, Milman/Bohn 

ivory laid with partial large heraldic watermark. 

i/i 

artist 

PMJ383 

$1,000.00 

This complex and deftly rendered etching comes from the Chinatown Series that John Winkler did in San Francisco in the 1920s. While it shows up early in the artist's exhibition and checklists, it's not available in the later lists, indicating a very small edition that was never finished. Winkler's interest in capturing the vitality of cities shows in this depiction of everyday life in the famous San Francisco neighborhood, where Western and Chinese culture have merged.