Our American artists
S. G. W. Benjamin's 1879 survey of American painters, published in Boston by D. Lothrop & Co. for a general reading public curious about the studios and faces behind current pictures. Wood-engraved plates show cluttered studio interiors, easels, draped walls hung with framed canvases, and bust portraits of bearded artists in caps, rendered in dense crosshatching useful for textured interior scenes.
