San Francisco Bay

 

Erle Loran

  1905 - 1999 (biography)

1940  

lithograph 

9 1/4 x 12" image 

pencil, lr 

56 of 150  

pencil titled, ll 

illustrated in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 2, 1940, and again on Wednesday, April 10, 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 24, 1940. 

BEPA116 

SOLD

This was the last of five prints offered by the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday, March 31,1940, in their fourth series Contemporary Graphics. Loran's "San Francisco Bay" is a modernist urban landscape depicting San Francisco's waterfront. There are modes of transportation throughout the image including ferryboats, delivery trucks, a school bus, and a freighter. Across the bay is Alcatraz Island and beyond that the Marin headlands. The only human element is the Matisse inspired odalisque featured in the billboard.