Annual exhibition : catalogue
This is a catalogue of the annual painting exhibition held by the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, published in 1897 for visitors to that show. The pictures are reproduced as plates, each captioned with the artist's name, catalogue number and title, and they range from a dark portrait of a seated man among hanging greenery to a classical scene of women on a marble terrace, a sea wave breaking on rocks, and a standing girl in a black hat and dress. A designer could take from them a spread of tonal painting styles, from dusky figure work to pale marble light and loose sea spray.
