S.F. House
Medium
Graphic Arts-Print
Classification
Graphic Arts-Print
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Michael J. Ettner
Accession Number
2021.88.54
Tags
Art Historical Context
**S.F. House** by Marguerite Redman Dorgoh captures the iconic charm of San Francisco architecture through the lens of graphic arts printmaking. This undated work depicts a house perched along the city's dramatic coast, complete with steep stairs that evoke the hilly, stair-stepped neighborhoods for which San Francisco is renowned. As a print, it highlights the precision and reproducibility of the medium, allowing intricate details—like the interplay of light on coastal facades and structural lines—to be shared widely, a technique favored in early 20th-century American graphic arts for documen...
About the Artist
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh (1890–1944) was a prolific American printmaker and painter whose lithographs captured the architectural charm and everyday scenes of San Francisco during the Great Depression era. Born on December 14, 1890, in Watsonville, California, to farmer Christy Gentry Redman, she pursued formal training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco—now the San Francisco ...