Nine Palms

 

Roi George Partridge

  1888 - 1984 (biography)

1952  

etching 

7 1/2 x 8 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower center 

19 impressions 

artist's initials in the plate in the lower right corner 

White 276 

Head & Company Handmade ivory laid paper 

published 

artist 

PMJ326 

$850.00 

The location is Santa Barbara, California. Nine palm trees stand as stately sentinels along the shore of the Santa Barbara harbor. In the distance is the historic Stearns Wharf. The pier was built in 1872 at the cross section of the end of State Street and Cabrillo. It became the longest deep-water pier between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Today it is a major tourist attraction with restaurants and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Sea Center.