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Rhythmic shape; a text-book of design

Armfield, Maxwell, 1862- · 1920 · Berkeley, Calif. : Greenleaf Press · 10 pictures

A design textbook by the English painter and writer Maxwell Armfield, published in Berkeley, California, in 1920 for art students learning the principles of pattern and composition. The plates are pen-and-ink diagrams and exercises: spiral line studies, scalloped roundels in a square, half-drop repeats of stylised birds and rosettes, and small framed sketches annotated with construction lines.

Decoration and ornament

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