San Francisco, Washington Square

 

Max Pollak

  1886 - 1970 (biography)

c. 1940  

color aquatint with drypoint 

12 1/8 x 18 3/4" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated; presumed fewer than 30 impressions 

pencil titled, lower left 

 

 

published 

artist 

DASL257 

$600.00 

A view of Washington Square Park in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, Coit Tower in the distance. In the lower left, the silhouette of the 1879 Benjamin Franklin statue can be seen overlooking the center of the park, while visitors sit on benches along the sidewalk. Washington Square Park is situated in the North Beach neighborhood, famed for its Italian heritage and for being the cultural center of the Beat Generation.