New York: Brooklyn Bridge

Max Pollak

Max Pollak was commissioned by author Theodore Dreiser to do a series of eight color etchings of New York which were then reproduced in his book "My City", published in 1929 by Horace Liveright. This image of the Brooklyn Bridge was not used for the book but was published by Rudolf Lesch Fine Arts, New York. Pollak printed a number of the works while in his Austria, where he was educated.

Though the edition for the New York images was anticipated as 150 Pollak did not finish the whole edition, the stock market crashed the next year, 1929, when Dreiser's book was published, and the economic practicality of printing a full edition disappeared.

Pollak depicts the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn wharves, looking across the East River toward Manhattan.