Early American paintings; catalogue of an exhibition held in the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, February 3d to March 12th, 1917
Exhibition catalogue issued by the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1917 for a showing of American paintings from the colonial and early republic years, aimed at museum visitors and collectors. The 131 plates are halftone reproductions of oil portraits: dark grounds, sitters in black coats with high white stocks and cravats, useful for period faces, collar shapes and soft tonal backgrounds.
