View from Russian Hill, S.F.

 

Nadine Porter Torrance

  1900 - 1974 (biography)

c. 1930  

etching 

7 x 4 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated, presumed small 

titled in pencil 

 

cream textured wove 

published 

artist 

15888 

$275.00 

A commanding view in miniature from the famously steep hills of San Francisco; in this case, the top of Russian Hill looking east out over the Bay toward Oakland and Berkeley. Lombard runs below, and int he distance a dramatic sky signals an approaching storm. Torrance doesn't miss a detail, capturing the laundry fluttering on the line and, on the balconies of an adjacent apartment building, potted plants hiding safely beneath their awnings.