America: Soda Springs Lodge

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1969  

graphite and pastel drawing 

7 3/4 x 11 1/2" image and paper size 

pencil, lower right 

 

pencil titled and dated "3-18-1969" in lower right 

 

cream wove 

 

 

23680 

$600.00 

Max Pollak was 83 years old when he did this drawing in 1969. The subject is a lodge in Soda Springs, California in winter, snow encasing the building. Soda Springs is located in Nevada County, California, 3 miles west of Donner Pass in the Sierras. San Francisco magnates Mark Hopkins and Leland Stanford set up a resort at the place in the 1880s. It continues to be a destination for winter sports enthusiasts.