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Cincinnati, Mt. Adams by Max Pollak

Cincinnati, Mt. Adams by Max Pollak

Cincinnati, Mt. Adams

Max Pollak

Title

Cincinnati, Mt. Adams

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
c. 1940  
Technique
etching and color aquatint 
Image Size
12 x 11 1/2" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 22  
Annotations
pencil titled, in lower left; bears the red FPC collector's stamp in the lower left; from the collection of Friedl Pollak; inscribed along lower sheet edge "Mt. Adams" 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22561 
Price
SOLD
Description

Max Pollak did a series of color aquatints and drawings in Cincinnati, Ohio during his and Freidl's etching journey across the United States on his way to California.

The viewer peers through an etched screen of bare, snow covered branches toward a settlement perched on the top of a snowy "mountaintop". Pollak adds selected aquatinted colors, printed a la poupeé, to a number of the buildings to bring warmth to the scene.

Mount Adams is one of seven hills that surround Cincinnati. In this composition the steeple of the Church of the Immaculate Conception is seen at the top of the hill. Off to the far left, through the dreary winter sky the Newport Southbank Bridge (the Purple People Bridge) crosses the Ohio River, connecting Newport, Kentucky to downtown Cincinatti.