
Arthur Frank Mathews(1860-1945)City at Night 22 1/2 x 26 1/4in framed 30 x 33in
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Arthur Frank Mathews (1860-1945)
unsigned
oil on canvas
22 1/2 x 26 1/4in
framed 30 x 33in
Painted circa 1905.
Footnotes
Provenance
Arthur and Lucia Mathews, San Francisco, California.
Harold Joseph Wagner (executor of the Arthur Mathews estate), San Francisco, California.
The Estate of Michael di Cosola, San Francisco, California.
Private collector, San Francisco, California, by descent from the above.
The subject is a twilight view of San Francisco, believed to be a view from Mathews' studio at Post and Hyde Street looking North-Northeast toward Nob Hill. The tower at the top of the Hill to the left appears to be that of the Mark Hopkins Art Institute and the tower lower right is Grace Church, then located at the corner of California and Stockton. Both of these landmarks were destroyed in the 1906 fire and earthquake. The illuminated street below is likely Sutter Street. Mathews did a series of such nocturnes from his Post Street studio, some of which were later reproduced in his magazine Philopolis that he co-published from 1906 to 1916 with his wife Lucia.