Description
San Francisco Pawnbrokers – 2019. Acrylic on canvas. Original painting size: 24″ x 18″ (61 cm x 45.7 cm)
San Francisco Pawnbrokers was a family owned and run fixture of West Hastings Street in Vancouver, BC, for over 50 years. The family sold the property to developers (Concord Pacific) in 2007. It was a good time to finally sell because the real estate market in the area had heated up in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Olympics and it marked the true beginning of a re-gentrification of this economically depressed area of Downtown Vancouver.
The new owners also bought up most of the other older properties along this south side of the zero block of West Hastings. They tore down the buildings and have let the land sit empty, temporarily being used by Hastings Urban Farm as public food gardens. The land owners, no doubt, waiting for the most advantageous time to redevelop these lots into new high priced store fronts and condos. Perhaps their plan is to wait until they can roll up the entire block before rebuilding.
Reference for this view comes from a series of photos I took of the area in 1990.
Limited Edition Prints
This Edition is limited to 200 signed and numbered prints and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
Limited Edition Prints are available on stretched canvas, rolled canvas, fine art rag paper or photographic paper in a range of sizes from 24″ x 18″ (61 cm x 45.7 cm) (the original painting size), down to 18″ x 13.5″ (45.7 x 43.3 cm) on canvas or 16″ x 12″ (40.6 x 30.5 cm) on paper.
Open Edition Small Inkjet Poster
Small Posters are offered as a more affordable option to Limited Edition Prints. Open Edition simply means these prints are unsigned and unnumbered with no limits on how many can be printed and sold.
This image is also available as an Open Edition Small Inkjet Posters, which are high quality Inkjet prints laid out on a standard size, 19″ x 13″ (48.3 x 33 cm) (A3+), satin finish, photographic paper sheet. They include the artwork image with a title/artist line below. This option offers a very high quality image with great lightfastness and archival paper qualities.
Now also available in a half-size 13″ x 9.5″ (33 x 24.1 cm) format.
