Ferry Boat

 

Harriet Gene Roudebush

  1908 - 1998 (biography)

1936  

etching 

3 7/8 x 6 1/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

titled, lower left; verso: "Ferry from Oakland to S.F. 1940" in another hand. 

 

antique-white wove 

published 

artist 

PMJ185 

SOLD

The ferry boat has been identified as the "Berkeley", and the bridge is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in California. The etching was made shortly after the bridge opened for traffic on Nov. 12, 1936, six months before the opening of Golden Gate Bridge.