Color instruction : suggestions for a course of instruction in color for public schools
Color instruction is a 1893 American teaching guide for public school art courses, published in Boston and New York by the Prang Educational Company under Louis Prang, with Mary Dana Hicks and John Spencer Clark credited as authors. Its plates show flat geometric shapes and banded patterns in a single brown-red tone on cream paper, drawn as classroom exercises in paper cutting and arrangement. A designer could draw on their clear quatrefoil, cross and star silhouettes and their rhythmic strip borders for simple modular pattern and repeat layouts.
