American painters of yesterday and today
Frederic Fairchild Sherman's 1919 essays on American painters, privately printed in New York for collectors and readers of his art criticism. Monochrome halftone plates reproduce tonalist paintings—tree masses in silhouette against pale luminous skies, marsh and meadow horizons, dim moonlit clearings—with soft focus and heavy shadow that suit atmospheric backgrounds, duotone washes, and low-contrast texture overlays.
