Catalog of an exhibition of Early American paintings : held in the Brooklyn Museum February 3rd to March 25th, 1917
An exhibition catalogue published by the Brooklyn Museum in 1917, cataloguing early American paintings shown there that winter for an audience of museum visitors and art students. The single plate is a sepia halftone of a standing full-length portrait of a man in a dark coat and cravat, one hand extended toward a draped table, with a column and curtain behind him. A designer might take from it the formal full-length portrait pose and the warm, muted tonal palette typical of early photographic reproductions of old paintings.
