Fishing on the Rogue River

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1945  

drypoint with color applied a la poupee 

9 3/4 x 10 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

unique impression 

pencil titled and inscribed at lower sheet edge "Only print"; Friedl Pollak Collection stamp in lower left sheet corner 

Triton Museum, Max Pollak in Retrospect, cat. 76 

ivory simile vellum wove paper 

published 

artist 

22530 

SOLD

An image of the Rogue River Bridge in Gold Beach, Oregon, at the mouth of the Rogue River where it meets the Pacific Ocean. It is also known as the Isaac Lee Patterson Memorial Bridge and is a part of the American west's famous Highway 1 route. Max Pollak depicts the Art Deco structure with fishermen at the base of its arches to show its size and scale.

This impression is inscribed "only print", though it's unclear why he would have chosen not to do a full edition, as it is an elegant and classic Pollak image, including architecture, landscape, and daily life.