54. Isac Friedlander
(1890-1968)
Brooklyn Bridge

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Friedlander: Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Etching, 1930, 360 x 155mm. Fine impression on thick wove paper from the edition of 50, titled, numbered, inscribed with the artist’s name and countersigned by his widow in pencil. Friedlander was born in Latvia, then under Tsarist Russian dominion, studied in Italy at the Academy of Rome, and, after the Russian Revolution, returned to Latvia to teach art to elementary school students. In 1929, with the aid of an American cousin, he immigrated, through New York City, to Toronto Canada and, not long afterward, back to New York where he lived and worked in an apartment on West End Avenue until his death. Friedlander is well known for both his etchings and his wood engravings and his subject matter ranges through architectural images, social commentary, Shakespearean evocations and Judaica. This rarely seen print is one of the more unusual views of the Brooklyn Bridge, a subject of almost infinite interest to artists since its opening in 1883.