Catalogue of the ... annual exhibition
This is an 1894 exhibition catalogue issued by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, listing American paintings and sculpture shown that year for the public and art trade. The plates reproduce works in halftone: a standing woman in a long patterned gown holding flowers, a seated woman in a garden landscape captioned as a portrait by August Franzen, a town street with a horse-drawn scene captioned Old Mills on the Somme by W. Elmer Schofield, and a head-and-shoulders study of a young woman in a white sailor blouse with a dark neckerchief. A designer could draw on the soft tonal range, the dark backgrounds and the restrained period fashion of the portraits.
