Virginia City

 

John Charles Haley

  1905 - 1991 (biography)

1940  

lithograph 

9 1/8 x 11 7/8" image size 

pencil, lr 

31 of 150  

pencil titled, ll 

illustrated on page 12 in the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, April 5, 1940. 

ivory Warren's Oldestyle watermarked wove 

published 

San Francisco Chronicle, Contemporary Graphics, this was from the fourth series of signed prints and was offered in the Chronicle on Sunday, March 31, 1940. 

BEPA115 

SOLD

"Virginia City" was the fourth print of five offered by the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, March 31, 1940, in their fourth series of Contemporary Graphics. This landscape depicts the Nevada mining town Virginia City. In the foreground are the Union and Old Mexican mines and the church at right is St. Mary's of the Mountains. The scene looks down Six-Mile Canyon, past Sugar Loaf Mountain, and over into Carson Valley.