New York, East Side: Pike Street

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

1929  

color etching & aquatint 

11 x 6 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

22 of 150  

titled, lower left; bears the red stamp F.P.C. for Friedl Pollak Collection; stamped verso "Made in Austria"; copyright Corp. Rud Lesch NY in lower left corner of image 

Triton cat. 54 

ivory laid Van Gelder watermarked paper 

published 

Rudolph Lesch, NY 

PAKU105 

SOLD

Allen Street in Lower Manhattan runs through Chinatown and the Lower East Side. South of Division Street, it is known as Pike Street. The vignette in Pollak's "New York, Eastside Pike Street" suggests a narrow street lined with tenement buildings housing families and their businesses. A LAUNDRY sign is above the head of a seated man reading his newspaper on the sidewalk with his dog nearby. Today Pike Street has been widened and much improved with a median park.