The first hundred years
A 1925 commemorative history published in New York by the National Academy of Design, the city's art institution, covering its first hundred years and aimed at artists, students and art-history readers. The four plates are reproduced in sepia halftone: a standing bronze statue on a granite plinth before a classical building, a painter's portrait with brush and palette, a bas-relief seated figure in a circular roundel, and a three-storey white museum building with a banner and a flag set beside a curved path. A designer might take from them the restrained tonal palette of early twentieth-century halftone printing and the formal classical framing of civic architecture.
