Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings
A 1907 exhibition catalogue from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., reproducing works by American painters of its day as tipped-in plates, one painting per page. The pictures are soft-focus halftone reproductions of oil portraits and genre scenes, with a restrained palette of greys, cream and muted greens. A designer might take from them the quiet, tonal approach of turn-of-the-century American portraiture, with figures set against plain grounds and atmospheric backgrounds.
