Fountain for San Francisco (aka: Balconies)

Earl W. Stroh

"Fountain for San Francisco" is a color etching done by Taos, New Mexico modernist Earl Stroh while he was in Paris, studying printmaking with Johnny Friedlaender at his atelier. Stroh was there on a grant from art patron Helene Wurlitzer, who lived in Taos, New Mexico.

Stroh printed a small group of proofs of these etchings, intending to edition them back in Taos. Something apparently happened on the ship when he was returning to the US and he lost his records and plates. Because of this incident the edition sizes, though small, are unknown.

This impression is annotated to "Jim" who might well have been from San Francisco. There is another impression of this print in the Museum of New Mexico collection that is titled "Balconies."