The Catalogue of the ... annual exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
An exhibition catalogue issued by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1900, listing the paintings shown at its annual exhibition and presenting the artists through small portrait photographs. The pictures are halftone head-and-shoulders portraits of men in period suits and ties, shot in plain studio settings with soft grey backdrops. A designer might take from them the restrained formal conventions of turn-of-the-century artist portraiture, with moustaches, side-parted hair and high collars.
