San Francisco, Between the Bridges by Max Pollak

San Francisco, Between the Bridges by Max Pollak

San Francisco, Between the Bridges

Max Pollak

Title

San Francisco, Between the Bridges

 
Artist

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)
Year
1949  
Technique
color aquatint with roulette 
Image Size
12 7/8 x 19 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 150  
Annotations
titled, lower left; bears the red collector's stamp of Friedl Pollak in lower left corner of the paper along with the inscription: Friedl collection 
Reference
Triton catalogue 63, illustrated on page [16] 
Paper
cream wove Arches with watermark 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
22627 
Price
SOLD
Description
This view is from the Marin Headlands looking southeast toward San Francisco. At top left is the Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco to east bay cities and at right are the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge which connects the city with Marin County and cities north. At the base of San Francisco Bay is Horseshoe Cove which is a historic marina at Fort Baker and at the top of the bay is San Francisco, often referred to as Bagdad by the Bay by columnist Herb Caen. The cove was quiet and protected and The San Carlos, the first Spanish ship to sail in San Francisco Bay, anchored near these waters in 1775. The U.S. Army purchased the land in 1866 and the began building a breakwater. This area was used for the production of concrete for building the Golden Gate Bridge and the fort was instrumental for the defense of the San Francisco Bay during World War II.