Annual exhibition : catalogue
This is a catalogue of the annual exhibition held by the Carnegie Institute Museum of Art in Pittsburgh in 1897, published for visitors and collectors of contemporary painting. Its plates are halftone reproductions of paintings, mostly soft-focus landscapes and figure studies with numbered captions. A designer could take from them the misty, tonal atmosphere of late nineteenth-century American painting, with pale draped figures set against dark foliage, rough sea surfaces, and a dim interior with a lamplit figure.
