Artist Obituary Scrapbooks: Volume [1] (1906-15)

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), D'Hervilly, A. B. de St. M · 1906 · [multiple] · 5 pictures

This is a scrapbook of newspaper obituary clippings about artists, compiled by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1906 for its own reference. The pages paste together printed death notices, headlines and small halftone portraits of painters, with dates and newspaper names visible in the margins. A designer could take from it the dense, layered look of cut-and-pasted newsprint, with mixed column widths, bold condensed headlines and grainy photographic portraits set against yellowed paper.

Obituaries · Artists -- 20th century

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