Art and artists of our time
Clarence Cook's survey of nineteenth-century painting and painters, issued in New York by S. Hess in 1888 for American collectors and general readers following European salon art. Halftone and engraved reproductions of genre and portrait canvases show women sewing, village schoolrooms, garden parties and interiors, offering period costume, plaid and striped textiles, and grouped figure compositions in soft grey tone.
