Forty works of art from the sixty-third annual exhibition of the Academy of The Fine Arts : held at Philadelphia, Dec. 18, 1893 to Feb. 24, 1894
This is an 1894 exhibition catalogue from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, reproducing forty works shown in its sixty-third annual exhibition for an American art-going public. The four plates here are halftone reproductions, printed sideways on the page, showing a sunlit rural scene with figures, a dim interior with a seated woman and a bird, a group of figures in a village street, and an elderly man reading in a cluttered room. A designer could take from them the soft tonal modelling of late nineteenth-century American painting and its strong use of dappled light and shadow.
