Collection of paintings of the modern American schools : including twenty-four exceedingly fine examples by the late Mary Cassatt : the property of Mr. Payson T. Thompson, New York city, and sold by his order
An American Art Association auction catalogue from New York in 1928, offering modern American paintings from the collection of Payson T. Thompson, including twenty-four works by Mary Cassatt. Its plates are halftone reproductions of soft pencil and pastel-like studies of mothers and children, seated figures and sleeping heads, showing loose outline, smudged dark masses and areas left as bare paper. A designer might take from them the economy of a few confident lines against a tonal wash, and the tender, unposed intimacy of domestic portraiture.
