Exhibition of paintings by Abbott H. Thayer held at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 24-June 30
An 1919 exhibition catalogue published by the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, presenting paintings by the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer, who worked in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The plates are reproduced as halftone photographs, one painting per page with a numbered caption beneath. The three pictures show soft-focus figure studies: a young woman in white, a winged angel against a dark ground, and a robed woman flanked by two children in a misty landscape, offering designers examples of luminous, idealised figure compositions with tonal restraint.
