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Temple E-Man-U-El Arguello and Lake Sts. San Francisco, Cal (WPA) by Jennie Lewis

Temple E-Man-U-El Arguello and Lake Sts. San Francisco, Cal (WPA) by Jennie Lewis

Temple E-Man-U-El Arguello and Lake Sts. San Francisco, Cal (WPA)

Jennie Lewis

Title

Temple E-Man-U-El Arguello and Lake Sts. San Francisco, Cal (WPA)

 
Artist

Jennie Lewis

  1892 - 1944 (biography)
Year
c. 1938  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
9 x 14" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
about 25 impressions 
Annotations
titled in pencil lower right; also inscribed verso in unknown hand: Calif. Ltiho 
Reference
no. 65.37.614 on checklist of WPA Grpahics Achenbach Collection 
Paper
unidentified cream wove paper 
State
published 
Publisher
California WPA Federal Art Project 
Inventory ID
AFAE115 
Price
SOLD
Description

This lithograph was published by the California Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project in an edition of around 25 impressions.

Jennie Lewis created a lithograph using a variety of patterned lines and shapes rather than shadows to create a "texture" for this cityscape. The dome of Temple Emanu-El is visible at the top of the composition. The temple is located at 2 Lake Street at Arguelo Boulevard in San Francisco.

Jennie Lewis, who had studied for a summer with William Merritt Chase in 1914 in Carmel, California did a series of interesting, Modernist lithographs of San Francisco for the Project in the late 1930s. Lewis died in a snow storm in the Sierras at age 52.